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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 7, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT for Clay County, Riley County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, KS, Riley County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 5:00 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Green, KS | Golfball size hail broke the windshield of a patrol car. |
| Aug 7, 5:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Randolph, KS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 1219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KTOP 072159 TORTOP KSC027-161-072245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 500 PM CDT MON AUG 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL CLAY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS NORTHWESTERN RILEY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 458 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF GREEN...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF CLAY CENTER...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... LEONARDVILLE RANDOLPH LASITA THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR HEAD AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFOsRMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 35 min |
| Aug 7, 12:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 50 min |
| Aug 7, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 36 min |
| Aug 7, 3:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 46 min |
| Aug 7, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson | 36 min |
| Aug 7, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Riley | 39 min |
| Aug 7, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 27 min |
| Aug 7, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 35 min |
| Aug 7, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 30 min |
| Aug 7, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Shawnee | 29 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.