2 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 12, 12:49 AM CST, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KANSAS 149 AM CDT THU JUN 12 2003 MAIN CONCERN...CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL THROUGH SUNDAY. A WESTERLY FLOW PATTERN WILL DOMINATE THE UPPER LEVEL WEATHER PATTERN ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA UNTIL THE WEEKEND. MINOR FEATURES EMBEDDED IN THIS FLOW WILL CREATE FORECAST PROBLEMS TRYING TO FIGURE WHICH ONE WILL INTERACT WITH THE WARM AND MOIST AIR. ON GOING CONVECTION OVER CENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD CONTINUE TO SPREAD EAST AND WILL LIKELY SET UP OUTFLOW BOUNDARYS THAT WILL RESIDE IN THE AREA AND BE A NEMESIS FOR LATER TODAY. WILL WAIT AS LONG AS FEASIBLE TO SEE HOW ACTION EVOLVES REST OF TONIGHT BEFORE DECIDING FINAL WORDING AND POP VALUES TODAY. THERE IS A LIKELYHOOD THAT TODAY WILL BE BROKEN UP INTO TWO OR MAYBE 3 SEGMENTS WITH EARLY MORNING PART JUST WORDED OCCASIONAL OR SCATTERED AND POP MENTION HELD OFF UNTIL LATER TODAY WITH TIMEOUT IN THE ACTION DURING MIDDLE OF THE DAY AS ATMOSPHERE RECUPERATES FROM THE CONVECTIVE OVERTURN OF THE CURRENT TIME. AFTER TODAY WILL CONTINUE POPS THROUGH SUNDAY...BUT DOWN TO 20% BY THEN AS FLOW PATTERN BUCKLES AND UPPER RIDGING WITH ASSOCIATED CAPPING SETS UP JUST TO OUR WEST. THE SYNOPTIC PATTERN SHOULD KEEP THINGS CAPPED THROUGH THE END OF THE FORECAST PERIOD SO DRY WEATHER IS FORECAST SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...IN LINE WITH PREVIOUS FORECAST. DID NOT CHANGE TOO MUCH ON TEMPERATURES EXCEPT TO LOWER HIGHS A DEGREE OR SO FRIDAY BASED ON LATEST GUIDANCE CONSENSUS AND POSSIBILITY MORE CLOUDS MAY BE AROUND THAN EARLIER THOUGHT ALONG WITH GENERAL EAST COMPONENT TO SURFACE WINDS. 34 .TOP...NONE.
KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-121000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1224 AM CDT THU JUN 12 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL...NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...OVERNIGHT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS MUCH OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS OVERNIGHT. PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED...ALTHOUGH ISOLATED LARGE HAIL AND LOCALLY STRONGER WINDS GUSTS WILL BE POSSIBLE. HEAVY RAINFALL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ALSO OCCUR WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY WITH HEAVY RAIN...LARGE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING THE MAIN THREATS. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL DECREASE SUNDAY...HOWEVER DEADLY LIGHTNING WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED OVERNIGHT. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/TOP (ALL LOWER CASE)
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
346 AM CDT THU JUN 12 2003
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0330 AM ENTERPRISE KS 50 MPH TSTM GUST
06/12/03 DICKINSON POWER WAS OUT AND SOME
TREE LIMBS 2 TO 4
INCHES IN DIAMETER
BROKEN. REPORTED BY
NWS SPOTTER.The Topeka radar (KTWX), 77 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:49 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong winds blew a steel roof off a business onto some power lines.
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, June 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: 5364095, 5364096.