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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 2024, 6:59 PM CDT for Anderson County, Kansas. It was in force for 16 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 27, 2024, 6:59 PM CDT (23:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2024, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Anderson County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 11:51 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 92 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1585 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.9
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 27, 4:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 4:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Topeka KS 412 AM CDT Sat Apr 27 2024 KSZ011-012-023-024-026-037>040-054>056-058-059-280915- Nemaha-Brown-Pottawatomie-Jackson-Jefferson-Morris-Wabaunsee-Shawnee- Douglas-Lyon-Osage-Franklin-Coffey-Anderson- 412 AM CDT Sat Apr 27 2024 ...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON CDT TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for east central Kansas and northeast Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Severe thunderstorms are expected to occur this afternoon and evening with very large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes all possible. Additional rounds of heavy rainfall could also lead to flooding across east central and northeast Kansas. So a flood watch has been posted from noon today through Sunday morning. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. A few strong to severe thunderstorms are possible again Sunday afternoon over east central and northeast Kansas. .SPOTTER MESSAGE Weather spotters are encouraged to relay reports of hail, damaging wind, tornadoes and flooding. && More detailed information can be found at: www.weather.gov/media/top/DssPacket.pdf KSZ008>010-020>022-034>036-280915- Republic-Washington-Marshall-Cloud-Clay-Riley-Ottawa-Dickinson-Geary- 412 AM CDT Sat Apr 27 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Kansas, east central Kansas, north central Kansas and northeast Kansas. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Severe thunderstorms are expected to occur this afternoon and evening with very large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes all possible. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. A few strong to severe thunderstorms are possible again Sunday afternoon over east central and northeast Kansas. .SPOTTER MESSAGE Weather spotters are encouraged to relay reports of hail, damaging wind, tornadoes and flooding. && More detailed information can be found at: www.weather.gov/media/top/DssPacket.pdf
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 27, 3:21 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 12:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley | 38 min |
| Apr 27, 12:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay, Riley | 31 min |
| Apr 27, 1:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 37 min |
| Apr 27, 1:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown | 29 min |
| Apr 27, 1:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall, Pottawatomie | 35 min |
| Apr 27, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Riley, Washington | 36 min |
| Apr 27, 2:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson, Nemaha, Pottawatomie | 46 min |
| Apr 27, 2:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Dickinson, Geary | 55 min |
| Apr 27, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Morris | 37 min |
| Apr 27, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 49 min |
| Apr 27, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 45 min |
| Apr 27, 3:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 29 min |
| Apr 27, 3:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Osage, Shawnee | 29 min |
| Apr 27, 4:51 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 2 hr |
| Apr 27, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.