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Special Weather Statement, NWS Topeka, KS

June 23, 2025Republic County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this special weather statement at Jun 23, 2025, 3:21 PM CDT for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 9 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 2025, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2025, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 9 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 50

County Republic County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 213 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: 796 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -213 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1115 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 250 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 262 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 3:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Geary	28 min
Jun 23, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Riley	46 min
Jun 23, 4:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Republic	43 min
Jun 23, 4:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Geary	24 min
Jun 23, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	35 min
Jun 23, 5:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Geary, Riley	3 hr
Jun 23, 5:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Marshall	37 min
Jun 23, 5:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Dickinson	42 min
Jun 23, 5:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TOP	Wabaunsee	38 min
Jun 23, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	14 min
Jun 23, 6:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Geary, Riley	3 hr

Nearby

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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.