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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Topeka, KS

April 25, 2024Franklin County, Osage County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2024, 2:04 PM CDT for Franklin County, Osage County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 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, 2:04 PM CDT (19:04 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2024, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Franklin County, KS, Osage County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 45 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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, 11:49 AM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 25, 11:49 AM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 25, 7:53 AM CDT, 6 hours 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 25, 12:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 25, 12:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 25, 12:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 25, 1:26 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 25, 1:31 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 25, 1:50 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Topeka KS
150 PM CDT Thu Apr 25 2024

KSZ054-055-251915-
Lyon-Osage-
150 PM CDT Thu Apr 25 2024

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHERN OSAGE AND EAST CENTRAL
LYON COUNTIES THROUGH 215 PM CDT...

At 149 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 4
miles north of Reading, moving east at 40 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and nickel size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down twigs or small limbs and blow
         around objects. Hail damage to outdoor objects and
         vegetation is possible.

Locations impacted include...
Osage City, Lyndon, Melvern, Reading, Olivet, Melvern Lake, and
Pomona Lake.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 3852 9601 3868 9596 3871 9556 3846 9562
TIME...MOT...LOC 1849Z 268DEG 33KT 3858 9593

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 7:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud	45 min
Apr 25, 8:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic	40 min
Apr 25, 9:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Ottawa	36 min
Apr 25, 9:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Cloud	30 min
Apr 25, 10:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Clay	37 min
Apr 25, 11:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Riley	34 min
Apr 25, 11:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Riley, Wabaunsee	33 min
Apr 25, 12:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Dickinson	48 min
Apr 25, 12:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Morris	32 min
Apr 25, 12:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee	37 min
Apr 25, 1:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Morris	34 min
Apr 25, 1:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Osage	29 min
Apr 25, 1:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Osage	25 min
Apr 25, 3:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Anderson	24 min
Apr 25, 4:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Anderson, Coffey	5 hr
Apr 25, 5:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Anderson	3 hr
Apr 25, 5:13 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Coffey, Lyon, Morris, Osage, Wabaunsee	3 hr
Apr 25, 6:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	3 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.