Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2003, 6:17 PM CDT for Shawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 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
- Apr 19, 2003, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Shawnee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 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.
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 19, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 4 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 504 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
216
WUUS53 KTOP 192317
SVRTOP
KSC177-192345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
616 PM CDT SAT APR 19 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN AND EASTERN SHAWNEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 645 PM CDT
* AT 612 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF AUBURN...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF TOPEKA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
TOPEKA
PAULINE
LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. MOVE INDOORS
NOW...AND AVOID WINDOWS.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SEVERE WEATHER.
LAT...LON 3917 9565 3905 9559 3905 9550 3887 9564
3888 9587
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage, Wabaunsee | 41 min |
| Apr 18, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 31 min |
| Apr 18, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 29 min |
| Apr 18, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson, Shawnee | 38 min |
| Apr 18, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 29 min |
| Apr 19, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee | 26 min |
| Apr 19, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas | 28 min |
| Apr 19, 6:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson, Shawnee | 52 min |
| Apr 19, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Franklin, Osage | 52 min |
| Apr 19, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 34 min |
| Apr 19, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey | 52 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.