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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Topeka, KS

September 7, 2001Dickinson County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 7, 2001, 5:44 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Sep 7, 2001, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired: Sep 7, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Dickinson County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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
Sep 7, 5:51 PM CDT	Hail 1	Abilene, KS
Sep 7, 5:59 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Abilene, KS	A tornado touched down in the city park and damaged 2 sheds and a concession stand before lifting moments later.

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
Sep 7, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Sep 7, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 130 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1545 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 658 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 4.1

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The text

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

125 
WFUS53 KTOP 072244
TORTOP
KSC041-072330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
544 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN DICKINSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 543 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ABILENE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  ENTERPRISE
  MOONLIGHT
  CHAPMAN

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.

LAT...LON 3894 9726 3878 9726 3897 9696 3913 9696

The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 7, 4:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	51 min
Sep 7, 5:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Nemaha	28 min
Sep 7, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Washington	34 min
Sep 7, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	34 min
Sep 7, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic	67 min
Sep 7, 5:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Dickinson	44 min
Sep 7, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Clay, Geary	32 min
Sep 7, 5:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Geary, Riley	34 min
Sep 7, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Republic	49 min
Sep 7, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	30 min
Sep 7, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Washington	14 min
Sep 7, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Coffey	42 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.