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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 12, 1995, 9:46 PM CDT for Geary County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 1995, 9:46 PM CDT (02:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 1995, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Geary County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 96 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 337 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 491 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOP 130245 TORTOP KSC061-130330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 946 PM CDT FRI MAY 12 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...GEARY COUNTY AT 945 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF JUCTION CITY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. JUNCTION CITY...FORT RILEY...AND THE SOUTHERN END OF MILFORD RESERVOIR ARE ALL IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL AND FUNNEL CLOUDS...AND IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS STORM IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 12, 4:06 PM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before
KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-130400- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 405PM CDT FRI MAY 12 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS: ANDERSON DOUGLAS JEFFERSON NEMAHA SHAWNEE FRANKLIN LYON OSAGE WABAUNSEE CLOUD BROWN GEARY MARSHALL POTTAWATOMIE CLAY COFFEY JACKSON MORRIS RILEY OTTAWA DICKINSON REPUBLIC WASHINGTON SYNOPSIS...A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN NORTHEAST COLORADO WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS NEBRASKA TONIGHT. THE LOW WILL TRIGGER A WIDE AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE TORNADOES. A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED UNTIL 10PM FOR PARTS OF NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS. SEVERE STORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS AFTER 6PM THIS EVENING. OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS...SEVERE STORMS ARE LIKELY AFTER 8 OR 9PM. THE STORMS MAY CONTINUE AFTER MIDNIGHT. SINCE SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER...SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR LATER INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. AKULOW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 68 min |
| May 12, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 25 min |
| May 12, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 44 min |
| May 12, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay | 64 min |
| May 12, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Riley | 52 min |
| May 12, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 45 min |
| May 12, 11:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee | 49 min |
| May 12, 11:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 49 min |
| May 12, 11:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic, Washington | 41 min |
| May 13, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 23 min |
| May 13, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 26 min |
| May 13, 2:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 27 min |
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.