Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 29, 2004, 6:20 PM CST for Cloud County, Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 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
- Feb 29, 2004, 6:20 PM CST (00:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 29, 2004, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cloud County, KS, Republic County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 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 nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 245 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 847 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KTOP 010020 SVRTOP KSC029-157-010100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 620 PM CST SUN FEB 29 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN CLOUD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS EASTERN REPUBLIC COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 700 PM CST * AT 616 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES WEST OF AGENDA TO 9 MILES SOUTH OF CONCORDIA...OR FROM 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA TO 9 MILES SOUTH OF CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... CUBA MUNDEN CLYDE NARKA AGENDA PENNY TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. FOR YOUR SAFETY...TAKE COVER INSIDE A BUILDING NOW. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3999 9762 3947 9770 3949 9738 4000 9737 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 6:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 47 min |
| Feb 29, 6:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Wabaunsee | 44 min |
| Feb 29, 6:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 30 min |
| Feb 29, 6:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Shawnee | 23 min |
| Feb 29, 7:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 36 min |
| Feb 29, 7:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 44 min |
| Feb 29, 7:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 23 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.