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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 2025, 6:01 PM CDT for Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 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
- Mar 27, 2025, 6:01 PM CDT (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2025, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Ottawa County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 1439 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 Mar 27, 2:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 27, 2:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 27, 2:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Topeka KS 245 PM CDT Thu Mar 27 2025 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-281945- Republic-Washington-Marshall-Nemaha-Brown-Cloud-Clay-Riley- Pottawatomie-Jackson-Jefferson-Ottawa-Dickinson-Geary-Morris- Wabaunsee-Shawnee-Douglas-Lyon-Osage-Franklin-Coffey-Anderson- 245 PM CDT Thu Mar 27 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Kansas, east central Kansas, north central Kansas and northeast Kansas. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. A few severe storms could then develop late this afternoon and evening along and north of Interstate 70. Large hail and damaging wind could occur with those storms. Elevated fire danger is expected this afternoon due to gusty south winds up to 40 mph and RH values down to near 30 percent. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Severe storm chances return to eastern Kansas Saturday afternoon and evening along a cold front. At this point, no mode of severe weather can be ruled out at this time. && More detailed information can be found at: www.weather.gov/media/top/DssPacket.pdf
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 27, 1:37 PM CDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report...Summary
National Weather Service Topeka KS
137 PM CDT Thu Mar 27 2025
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0802 AM Tstm Wnd Gst 5 NNW Olpe 38.33N 96.19W
03/27/2025 M61 MPH Lyon KS ASOS
KEMP.
0935 AM Hail Rossville 39.14N 95.95W
03/27/2025 M1.00 Inch Shawnee KS Public
0945 AM Hail Allen 38.66N 96.17W
03/27/2025 M2.00 Inch Lyon KS Broadcast Media
Pictures sent via Slack.
0947 AM Hail 1 E Allen 38.66N 96.15W
03/27/2025 E1.50 Inch Lyon KS Broadcast Media
Relayed photo from Northern Heights high
school of quarter to half dollar size hail
covering the ground.
0947 AM Hail Allen 38.66N 96.17W
03/27/2025 E1.00 Inch Lyon KS Trained Spotter
Hail covered the ground.
0954 AM Hail 5 NNE Emporia 38.48N 96.15W
03/27/2025 E1.00 Inch Lyon KS Public
Relayed by KVOE radio. Time estimated from
radar data.
0954 AM Hail 2 E Admire 38.64N 96.07W
03/27/2025 E1.25 Inch Lyon KS Trained Spotter
1015 AM Hail 1 S Mayetta 39.32N 95.72W
03/27/2025 E1.25 Inch Jackson KS Trained Spotter
Hail covered the ground.
1024 AM Hail 3 NE Hoyt 39.28N 95.67W
03/27/2025 M1.00 Inch Jackson KS Trained Spotter
A few quarter-sized hailstones with a lot of
0.5 inch hailstones.
&&Special weather statement, Mar 27, 5:39 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Topeka KS
539 PM CDT Thu Mar 27 2025
KSZ034-272315-
Ottawa-
539 PM CDT Thu Mar 27 2025
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN OTTAWA COUNTY
THROUGH 615 PM CDT...
At 539 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 4
miles southwest of Barnard, moving east at 35 mph.
HAZARD...Strong wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Hail damage to outdoor objects and
vegetation is possible.
Locations impacted include...
Minneapolis, Delphos, and Ada.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
&&
LAT...LON 3931 9793 3931 9774 3910 9768 3908 9793
TIME...MOT...LOC 2239Z 255DEG 30KT 3915 9810
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
BDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 8:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Lyon | 43 min |
| Mar 27, 8:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Wabaunsee | 40 min |
| Mar 27, 8:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Morris | 32 min |
| Mar 27, 9:00 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Wabaunsee | 45 min |
| Mar 27, 9:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Lyon | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 9:10 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Wabaunsee | 50 min |
| Mar 27, 9:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Shawnee | 25 min |
| Mar 27, 9:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage, Wabaunsee | 34 min |
| Mar 27, 9:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 27 min |
| Mar 27, 9:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson | 32 min |
| Mar 27, 10:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson | 17 min |
| Mar 27, 10:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Coffey | 37 min |
| Mar 27, 5:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Ottawa | 36 min |
| Mar 27, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 22 min |
| Mar 27, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 33 min |
| Mar 27, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 32 min |
| Mar 27, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Ottawa | 23 min |
| Mar 27, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 16 min |
| Mar 27, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Riley | 47 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.