NWS Topeka KSSV.W 0393September 15, 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Shawnee and Wabaunsee, KS
The National Weather Service office in Topeka issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Shawnee and Wabaunsee in Kansas, which was in force until 5:30 p.m. local time on September 15. It was the 393rd severe thunderstorm warning the NWS office in Topeka issued in 2026. Kansas had 142 severe thunderstorm warnings in September 2026, against 72 in an average September of 2008-2025 (Kansas's severe thunderstorm warnings by year).
ExpiredWarning
In force for 31 minutes; it has expired. The agency may have replaced it with a new notice.
The notice
- Issued by
- National Weather Service, Topeka KS
- Area
- Shawnee and Wabaunsee
- State
- Kansas
- Level
- Warning
- Issued
- 4:59 p.m. CDT, September 15, 2026
- Expires
- 5:30 p.m. CDT, September 15, 2026
- CAP severity, certainty, urgency
- Severe, Observed, Immediate
- VTEC event
- KTOP SV.W 0393
- Official source
- National Weather Service: the notice at its source
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas since 2008Every warning type in Kansas
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The notice as issued
SVRTOP The National Weather Service in Topeka has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Southwestern Shawnee County in east central Kansas... Southeastern Wabaunsee County in east central Kansas... * Until 530 PM CDT. * At 459 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Eskridge, moving northeast at 25 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. * Locations impacted include... Eskridge, Dover, and Keene.
What the agency told people to do
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building.
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The record around this notice
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas since 20081,225 a year
- Every warning type in Kansas
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning: what it means, and the states that get the most20,005 a year
- NWS notices, September 20262,824 in the month
- The latest from the National Weather Service
- Warning, watch or advisory: the three NWS levels