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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Topeka, KS

May 5, 2002Washington County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 5, 2002, 11:03 PM CDT for Washington County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 2002, 11:03 PM CDT (04:03 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 2002, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Washington County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2002-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1298 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2002-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1298 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KTOP 060403
TORTOP
KSC201-060430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1102 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 1059 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF
  HADDAM...OR ABOUT 31 MILES NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING EAST AT
  40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  MORROWVILLE AND WASHINGTON

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.

LAT...LON 4002 9734 3982 9734 3967 9683 3992 9683

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPOttawa60 min
May 5, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP35 min
May 5, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP47 min
May 5, 8:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPBrown, Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson, Nemaha and 3 more3 hr
May 5, 8:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPClay, Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Riley2 hr
May 5, 8:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPBourbon, Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Riley2 hr
May 5, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP53 min
May 5, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP49 min
May 5, 8:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPBourbon, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Cowley2 hr
May 5, 8:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP44 min
May 5, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP41 min
May 5, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP52 min
May 5, 9:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP49 min
May 5, 9:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPBrown, Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson, Nemaha and 3 more58 min
May 5, 10:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP49 min
May 5, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP44 min
May 5, 10:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP55 min
May 6, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP46 min
May 6, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP51 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 2002Every tornado warning in 2002Tornadoes in 2002

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.