2 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 23, 2:03 PM CST, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KANSAS 303 PM CDT SAT AUG 23 2003 MAIN CONCERNS ARE IN THE LONGER RANGE OF THE FCST. SHORTER TERM HAS SOME CONCERN IN CONVECTIVE CHCS THIS EVENING. APPEARS ON LATEST RUCII THAT A BIT STEEPER LAPSE RATES, REFLECTED TOO IN H7 TEMPS, WERE OVER THE SWRN CWA. WITH SATELLITE INDICATING CONVECTIVE DVLPMT THAT AREA ALREADY, WILL INCLUDE SOME LOW POPS THIS EVENING THERE. REST OF AREA WILL BE CLEAR OR HAVE DMSHG CU THIS EVENING. ALL OF AREA SHOULD BE CLEAR BY OR BEFORE MIDN. HIGH TEMPS NEXT FEW DAYS TO BE OVER 100. MET GUIDANCE BETTER...AND MESO-ETA SFC TEMPS MAY BE BEST OF ALL AS FAR OUT AS THEY GO. NEXT BNDRY APPEARS WILL BE NORTH OF AREA IN THE TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY TIME FRAME. THUS, WILL GO PLUS OR MINUS AROUND 100 THROUGH THURSDAY. LOWS AT NIGHT UPPER 60S TO LOWER 70S. HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL BE WELL OVER 100 AFTN HOURS NEXT FEW DAYS...HOWEVER NIGHTTIME READINGS WILL BE FALLING INTO THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 70S...THUS PRECLUDING ANY ADVISORIES. AS MENTIONED, MAIN CONCERN IS LATER IN THE WEEK WITH APPCHG WAVE AND SFC FNT. EURO MODEL...PREFERRED MODEL MUCH OF THE SUMMER...HAS AN UPPER LOW OVER THE GULF OF ALASKA THIS MORNING. THIS IS APPARENT SYSTEM EURO MODEL ASSOCIATED WITH FNT INTO THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT/FRIDAY. PER LATEST MOISTURE CHANNEL IMAGERY, THIS UPPER LOW APPEARS TO BE REFORMING A BIT SOUTH OF MRNG POSITION. EURO MODEL THEN MOVES THIS SYSTEM STEADILY TOWARDS NWRN COAST BY TUESDAY. GFS, MUCH LESS PREFERRED MODEL THIS SUMMER, HASTENS MOVEMENT OF THIS WAVE AND, FOR THE MOST PART, WEAKENS IT TO NEARLY NOTHING BY WEDNESDAY. EVEN LAST TWO UK MODEL RUNS ARE TRENDING TWRD EURO SOLUTION. REFERENCE EURO MODEL...BY THURSDAY NIGHT/FRIDAY MRNG, NOTE 850 MOISTURE/DEW POINTS IN THE BALLPARK FOR PCPN...AND 850 TEMPS COOLER, RELATIVELY SPEAKING, THAN THEY HAVE BEEN FORECAST FOR SOME TIME. THUS, HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH INTRODUCING LOW POPS THURSDAY NIGHT/FRIDAY PER HPC. HOWEVER PREFER TO DRAW DOWN TEMPERATURES CLOSER TO CLIMO BY SATURDAY VICE SUB-CLIMO READINGS PER HPC. .TOP...NONE
KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-241000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 400 PM CDT SAT AUG 23 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL...NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR THIS EVENING OVER NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS...BUT THESE SHOULD END BEFORE MIDNIGHT. THE MAIN HAZARD WILL BE LIGHTNING. HOWEVER...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SOME HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE MORE INTENSE STORMS DURING THE EARLY EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT AND MOVE THROUGH THE AREA ON FRIDAY. THIS FRONT WILL BRING WITH IT AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS WILL NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/TOP (ALL LOWER CASE)
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 91 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:21 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong winds tore off a few shingles of a residence near Talmage.
Strong winds blew down a power pole.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kansas in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, August 2003
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5368318, 5368319.