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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2000, 5:46 PM CDT for Morris County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 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
- May 26, 2000, 5:46 PM CDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morris County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
934 WFUS53 KTOP 262245 TORTOP KSC127-262315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 546 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN MORRIS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 544 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF WILSEY...OR ABOUT 28 MILES WEST OF EMPORIA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... COUNCIL GROVE DUNLAP IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary | 20 min |
| May 26, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 25 min |
| May 26, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 31 min |
| May 26, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 39 min |
| May 26, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Morris | 60 min |
| May 26, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson | 42 min |
| May 26, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage, Shawnee | 42 min |
| May 26, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Wabaunsee | 39 min |
| May 26, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas | 43 min |
| May 26, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.