Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2003, 10:57 PM CDT for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 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
- Jun 22, 2003, 10:57 PM CDT (03:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2003, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Republic County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 2534 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1045 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
270 WUUS53 KTOP 230357 SVRTOP KSC157-230500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1056 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... REPUBLIC COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT * AT 1052 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF COURTLAND TO NARKA...OR FROM 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA TO 31 MILES NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... MUNDEN COURTLAND SCANDIA BELLEVILLE CUBA REPUBLIC NARKA A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES RAPIDLY. LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAINS WILL OCCUR WITH THIS STORM. FOR YOUR SAFETY MOVE INDOORS NOW...AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3999 9793 4000 9736 3980 9738 3969 9792 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic | 53 min |
| Jun 22, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic | 65 min |
| Jun 22, 9:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Republic | 4 hr |
| Jun 22, 9:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic | 64 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.