Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 27, 2002, 3:36 PM CDT for Brown County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 2002, 3:36 PM CDT (20:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2002, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Brown County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 3:38 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Horton, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 441 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 528 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 630 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KTOP 272036 TORTOP KSC013-272100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 336 PM CDT SAT APR 27 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BROWN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 333 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO JUST SOUTHWEST OF HORTON...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF HIAWATHA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... HORTON EVEREST IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...LEAVE THEM AND GO TO A STURDY BUILDING. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD. AVOID OVERPASSES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3969 9554 3965 9554 3965 9533 3981 9533
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | 43 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.