Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2004, 1:01 PM CST for Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min. 6 reports 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
- Mar 29, 2004, 1:01 PM CST (19:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2004, 1:30 PM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ottawa County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 1:12 PM CST | HAIL 1.75 | 3 S Delphos, KS | |
| Mar 29, 1:12 PM CST | HAIL 1.75 | 3 S Delphos, KS | |
| Mar 29, 1:14 PM CST | HAIL 1 | 4 W Delphos, KS | HAIL WAS VERY SOFT |
| Mar 29, 1:14 PM CST | HAIL 1 | 4 W Delphos, KS | HAIL WAS VERY SOFT |
| Mar 29, 1:25 PM CST | HAIL 1.75 | 1 S Minneapolis, KS | |
| Mar 29, 1:25 PM CST | HAIL 1.75 | 1 S Minneapolis, KS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 1197 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 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 291901 SVRTOP KSC143-291930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 101 PM CST MON MAR 29 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... OTTAWA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 130 PM CST * AT 1259 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER DELPHOS...OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTH OF CONCORDIA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... MINNEAPOLIS LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. MOVE INDOORS NOW...AND AVOID WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3926 9792 3932 9765 3922 9740 3902 9764 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 11:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 52 min |
| Mar 29, 4:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Riley | 26 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.