Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2003, 7:21 PM CDT for Anderson County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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 8, 2003, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Anderson County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 1:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 8, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 1679 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 9.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
409 WFUS53 KTOP 090021 TORTOP KSC003-090100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 720 PM CDT THU MAY 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN ANDERSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 714 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLONY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF IOLA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... COLONY KINCAID AT 710 PM CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE WAS REPORTED BY A TORNADO NEAR YATES CENTER. FOR YOUR SAFETY...GO TO A STORM SHELTER OR BASEMENT NOW TORNADOES MAY HAVE WINDS GREATER THAN 100 MPH. AVOID OVERPASSES AND WINDOWS. COVER YOUR HEAD. LEAVE MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES...AND GO TO A BASEMENT OR STORM SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD. AVOID OVERPASSES. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3805 9550 3837 9506 3805 9508 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 27 min |
| May 8, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson | 42 min |
| May 8, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas | 22 min |
| May 8, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas | 21 min |
| May 8, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas | 19 min |
| May 8, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 17 min |
| May 8, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 28 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.