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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 319, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 20, 2024, 7:39 PM CDT for Clay County, Dickinson County, Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 19 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 20, 2024, 7:39 PM CDT (00:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 20, 2024, 7:58 PM CDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Clay County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ottawa County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 20, 6:40 PM CDT, 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 20, 6:40 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Sep 20, 7:23 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Sep 20, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Ottawa | 45 min |
| Sep 20, 7:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Cloud | 52 min |
| Sep 20, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 15 min |
| Sep 20, 7:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Geary, Riley | 34 min |
| Sep 20, 8:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Cloud | 30 min |
| Sep 20, 8:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Morris | 36 min |
| Sep 20, 8:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Geary | 33 min |
| Sep 20, 8:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Lyon | 37 min |
| Sep 20, 9:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Shawnee | 30 min |
| Sep 20, 10:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Lyon | 25 min |
| Sep 21, 5:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Washington | 48 min |
| Sep 21, 5:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Morris | 51 min |
| Sep 21, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Morris | 41 min |
| Sep 21, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee | 41 min |
| Sep 21, 5:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Washington | 34 min |
| Sep 21, 6:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Lyon | 44 min |
| Sep 21, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee | 27 min |
| Sep 21, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 27 min |
| Sep 21, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 26 min |
| Sep 21, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee | 48 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.