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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Topeka, KS

June 13, 1997Coffey County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1997, 4:14 PM CDT for Coffey County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 1997, 4:14 PM CDT (21:14 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1997, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Coffey County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 85 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1997-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 142 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1997-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
142 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-172 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1279 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTOP 132114 RRA
TORTOP
KSC031-132145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
414 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
     NORTHERN COFFEY COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
     JOHN REDMOND RESERVOIR
     OTTUMWA
     SHARPE
     HALLS SUMMIT

* AT 408 PM CDT THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 17 MILES EAST OF
EMPORIA OR JUST SOUTH OF LEBO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.t
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR
BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID
WINDOWS.

&
PB

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.