A line of thunderstorms moved through the area early in the morning of the 19th. A few of the storms were severe with damaging winds.
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A line of thunderstorms moved through the area early in the morning of the 19th. A few of the storms were severe with damaging winds.
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 Aug 18, 10:36 PM CST, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1136 PM CDT Mon Aug 18 2014 ...Update to aviation forecast discussion... .SHORT TERM...(This Evening through Tuesday) Issued at 352 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2014 The center of an upper level trough was located across eastern ND late this afternoon with an upper level trough axis extending southwest across central SD. The numerical models show this upper level trough digging southeast across southern MN and eastern NE into northern MO. The southwest section of the upper trough will move southeast across northeast KS between 6Z and 12Z. The NAM, GFS and ECMWF forecast QPF across northeast and east central KS later Tonight, with the ECMWF and NAM showing most of the CWA with QPF. The NAM model shows weak isentropic lift at the 310K level with LFCs around 700mb. The most intense isentropic lift at the 310K level will be across northern MO and IA. The mesoscale models, consisting of the ARW, NMM and HRRR do not forecast any QPF across the CWA tonight. I will probably keep slight chance to chance pops across much of the CWA, since the ascent ahead of the H5 trough combined with isentropic lift should allow elevated thunderstorms to develop across the northeast counties of the CWA around midnight, then building southwest across the central and southwest counties of the CWA through the early morning hours before spreading southeast across much of east central KS by 12Z TUE. Any lingering elevated thunderstorms, if they do develop, will shift southeast of the CWA during the mid morning hours. Skies should clear through the late morning and early afternoon hours and temperatures will warm into the lower to mid 90s. If there is a leftover outflow boundary across the northeast counties, then temperatures along the NE border may only reach into the upper 80s. I placed in 14 pops in case there is enough surface convergence for an isolated thunderstorm during the afternoon hours. .LONG TERM...(Tuesday Night through Monday) Issued at 352 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2014 Models are in agreement that heights rises and resulting warm air advection will be situated across the northeast corner of the county warning area Tuesday evening providing another chance for thunderstorms. As this area focuses further northward through the night...have removed pops this area after midnight. Will keep lows mild in the low to middle 70s. This will then set the stage for mostly sunny very warm...breezy day on Wednesday. Highs will generally be 95 to 100 degrees with the warmest in the Abilene area and the coolest near Hiawatha. As the upper ridge builds across the southern plains...expect dry weather across the cwa Wednesday night through Thursday. However... with south winds continuing...highs Thursday will again be in the middle to upper 90s. As the cutoff upper trough in the desert southwest gets picked up by Thursday and heads into the central and northern high plains into the weekend...there will be better chances for thunderstorms across the area...although the northern/northwest 1/2 of the cwa will be the more likely areas to see rain. Do not expect a frontal passage until during the day Sunday...so may not see highs temps below 90 degrees until Monday when readings in the middle to upper 80s should be the rule. && .AVIATION...(For the 06Z TAFs through 06Z Tuesday Night) Issued at 1119 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2014 VFR prevails at KTOP/KFOE/KMHK with main concern being TSRA potential. Cluster of TSRA over north central KS is progged to gradually dissipate towards the southeast overnight. Short term guidance maintains scattered TSRA aft 08Z so will leave VCTS mention through 11Z at KMHK and 14Z at KTOP/KFOE. && .TOP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SHORT TERM...Gargan LONG TERM...63 AVIATION...Bowen
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 651 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2014 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-200000- REPUBLIC-WASHINGTON-MARSHALL-NEMAHA-BROWN-CLOUD-CLAY-RILEY- POTTAWATOMIE-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-OTTAWA-DICKINSON-GEARY-MORRIS- WABAUNSEE-SHAWNEE-DOUGLAS-LYON-OSAGE-FRANKLIN-COFFEY-ANDERSON- 651 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP OVER THE OUTLOOK AREA LATER THIS EVENING...WITH INCREASING CHANCES AFTER MIDNIGHT. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CONCORDIA...TO MANHATTAN AND TOPEKA. GUSTY WINDS NEAR 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER UPDRAFTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES CONTINUE TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES RETURN TO MOST OF THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND. A PERIOD OF RELATIVELY HOT WEATHER IS STILL ANTICIPATED WEDNESDAY INTO THE WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT.
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 129 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:38 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Several reports of damaged outbuildings one of which was destroyed.
At Kansas First Studio.
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