Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT for Lyon County, Kansas. It was in force for 20 min. 1 report 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, 1:00 AM CDT (06:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2000, 1:20 AM CDT
- In force
- 20 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 06:00 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, 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, 6.0 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.
271 WFUS53 KTOP 270602 TORTOP KSC111-270620- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 100 AM CDT SAT MAY 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS EXTENDED THE * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN LYON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 120 AM CDT * AT 100 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF OLPE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF EMPORIA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... HARTFORD NEOSHO RAPIDS 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, 12:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon | 31 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 |
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.