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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Topeka, KS

April 25, 2024Cloud County, Republic County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2024, 8:20 AM CDT for Cloud County, Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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
Apr 25, 2024, 8:20 AM CDT (13:20 UTC)
Expired
Apr 25, 2024, 9:00 AM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Cloud County, KS, Republic County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 188 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2024-04-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2024-04-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
652 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Apr 25, 6:27 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 25, 6:27 AM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 25, 7:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCloud45 min
Apr 25, 9:09 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPOttawa36 min
Apr 25, 9:15 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPCloud30 min
Apr 25, 10:38 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPClay37 min
Apr 25, 11:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPGeary, Riley34 min
Apr 25, 11:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPGeary, Riley, Wabaunsee33 min
Apr 25, 12:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPDickinson48 min
Apr 25, 12:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPMorris32 min
Apr 25, 12:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon, Morris, Wabaunsee37 min
Apr 25, 1:26 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPMorris34 min
Apr 25, 1:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPOsage29 min
Apr 25, 1:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPOsage25 min
Apr 25, 2:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPFranklin, Osage41 min
Apr 25, 3:21 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementTOPAnderson24 min
Apr 25, 4:55 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTOPAnderson, Coffey5 hr
Apr 25, 5:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPAnderson3 hr
Apr 25, 5:13 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTOPCoffey, Lyon, Morris, Osage, Wabaunsee3 hr
Apr 25, 6:49 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTOPOsage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee3 hr

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.