Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2004, 10:56 PM CDT for Cloud County, Dickinson County, Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 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
- Jul 4, 2004, 10:56 PM CDT (03:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2004, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ottawa County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 11:40 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | 5 S Jamestown, KS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 4, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 486 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2387 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KTOP 050356
SVRTOP
KSC029-041-143-050500-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1055 PM CDT SUN JUL 4 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
DICKINSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS
SOUTHWESTERN CLOUD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
OTTAWA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
* AT 1051 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE
LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 36 MILES WEST OF GLASCO TO 12
MILES WEST OF TESCOTT TO 24 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CARLTON...OR ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM 47 MILES WEST OF CONCORDIA TO 29 MILES
NORTHWEST OF SALINA TO 10 MILES EAST OF MCPHERSON...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TESCOTT
MINNEAPOLIS
DELPHOS
GLASCO
SOLOMON
ABILENE
ENTERPRISE
HERINGTON
LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. FOR YOUR SAFETY...TAKE COVER INSIDE A BUILDING.
STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST
SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3959 9793 3955 9776 3942 9752 3933 9742
3928 9738 3913 9737 3912 9725 3871 9695
3866 9694 3861 9694 3861 9737 3896 9738
3897 9793
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 27 min |
| Jul 4, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Ottawa, Republic, Washington | 36 min |
| Jul 5, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley, Washington | 35 min |
| Jul 5, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie | 31 min |
| Jul 5, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 31 min |
| Jul 5, 1:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee | 49 min |
| Jul 5, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson, Nemaha | 50 min |
| Jul 5, 4:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey | 57 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.