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Wind Chill Watch 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this wind chill watch at Jan 17, 2024, 1:49 PM CST for 5 counties in Kansas. It took effect at Jan 19, 2024, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 17, 2024, 1:49 PM CST (19:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 19, 2024, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 18, 2024, 2:12 PM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
Counties Brown County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Republic County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 367 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2939 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 17, 1:49 PM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | TOP | Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more | 46 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.