Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2000, 12:34 AM CDT for Lyon County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 min. 3 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
- May 27, 2000, 12:34 AM CDT (05:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2000, 1:05 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lyon County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 12:50 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Emporia, KS | A tornado touched down on the Kansas Turnpike 7 miles southwest of Emporia and moved northeast over open country before lifting about 3 miles southeast of Emporia. |
| May 27, 12:59 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 M | Emporia Arpt, KS | |
| May 27, 1:05 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Emporia, 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 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, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1143 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
767 WFUS53 KTOP 270532 TORTOP KSC111-270605- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1234 AM CDT SAT MAY 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN LYON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 105 AM CDT * AT 1234 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 16 MILES WEST OF OLPE...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EMPORIA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... EMPORIA OLPE NEOSHO RAPIDS HARTFORD 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 INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Franklin | 31 min |
| May 27, 1:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon | 20 min |
| May 27, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Osage | 45 min |
| May 27, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Franklin | 31 min |
| May 27, 2:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 16 min |
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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.