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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Topeka, KS

April 24, 2003Douglas County, Franklin County, Osage County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2003, 5:26 PM CDT for Douglas County, Franklin County, Osage County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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 24, 2003, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2003, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Osage County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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
Apr 24, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 35 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 501 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KTOP 242226
TORTOP
KSC045-059-139-242315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
526 PM CDT THU APR 24 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
  NORTHWESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
  EAST CENTRAL OSAGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 523 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES EAST OF
  POMONA LAKE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES WEST OF OTTAWA...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  POMONA LAKE
  POMONA

IF A TORNADO APPROACHES...GO TO A BASEMENT OR SEEK SHELTER IN A
HALLWAY OR CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING. USE BLANKETS
OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR HEAD AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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

LAT...LON 3868 9561 3855 9547 3881 9519 3892 9536

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 24, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Franklin	42 min
Apr 24, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon	45 min
Apr 24, 4:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Coffey, Osage	43 min
Apr 24, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon	45 min
Apr 24, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Franklin, Osage	34 min
Apr 24, 5:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Douglas, Franklin, Osage	24 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.