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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Topeka, KS

May 19, 2025Shawnee County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2025, 1:35 AM CDT for Shawnee County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 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: May 19, 2025, 1:35 AM CDT (06:35 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2025, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 29 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: 344 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -220 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1379 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 278 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.7

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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 May 19, 12:57 AM CDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 12:57 AM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 18, 10:20 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 18, 9:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 18, 11:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 18, 11:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 12:20 AM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 1:01 AM CDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 19, 1:30 AM CDT, 5 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Dickinson, Ottawa	25 min
May 18, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon	31 min
May 18, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic	34 min
May 18, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Ottawa	33 min
May 18, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Morris, Wabaunsee	26 min
May 18, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Coffey, Lyon, Osage	37 min
May 18, 7:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Cloud, Republic	36 min
May 18, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Riley	47 min
May 18, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic, Washington	35 min
May 18, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley	34 min
May 18, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Republic, Washington	18 min
May 18, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Riley	19 min
May 18, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	26 min
May 18, 9:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Anderson	46 min
May 18, 11:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Cloud	27 min
May 18, 11:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Cloud, Washington	23 min
May 19, 12:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jackson	25 min
May 19, 1:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Wabaunsee	29 min
May 19, 1:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Wabaunsee	30 min
May 19, 1:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee	36 min
May 19, 2:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Shawnee	25 min
May 19, 2:26 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Jefferson	34 min
May 19, 2:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Anderson	34 min
May 19, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Coffey	42 min
May 19, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Douglas, Franklin	46 min
May 19, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Coffey, Franklin	21 min
May 19, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley	31 min
May 19, 3:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Anderson, Franklin	3 hr
May 19, 3:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Marshall	50 min
May 19, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Geary, Riley	48 min
May 19, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall	35 min
May 19, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	40 min
May 19, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Marshall	19 min
May 19, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Wabaunsee	52 min
May 19, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Marshall	22 min
May 19, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Nemaha, Pottawatomie	17 min
May 19, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie	49 min
May 19, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	30 min
May 19, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	37 min
May 19, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Lyon, Wabaunsee	47 min
May 19, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Morris	46 min
May 19, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee	26 min
May 19, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon	41 min
May 19, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	24 min
May 19, 6:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	4 hr
May 19, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Jackson, Nemaha	32 min
May 19, 6:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie	4 hr
May 19, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Shawnee, Wabaunsee	37 min
May 19, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Morris, Wabaunsee	24 min
May 19, 6:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	18 min
May 19, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee	34 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.