Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2004, 10:35 PM CDT for Cloud County, Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 min. 2 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
- May 22, 2004, 10:35 PM CDT (03:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2004, 11:15 PM CDT
- 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), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 10:40 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 6 N Glasco, KS | |
| May 22, 10:58 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Munden, KS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
Did it verify
Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched one storm report to this severe thunderstorm warning; the first came 5 minutes after it went out.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
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 22, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 2741 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1089 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 21.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1034 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN CLOUD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
SOUTHEASTERN REPUBLIC COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT
* AT 1033 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS
IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JAMESTOWN TO 7 MILES NORTH OF
MUNDEN...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 13 MILES WEST OF CONCORDIA
TO 31 MILES NORTH OF CONCORDIA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MUNDEN
NARKA
CUBA
CONCORDIA
AGENDA
THIS LINE OF STORMS HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZED HAIL AND
60 MPH WINDS.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE
TORNADOES RAPIDLY.
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 3935 9790 3954 9761 3968 9739 3999 9740
3998 9755 3984 9766 3967 9790
$$What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Topeka, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 22, 3:45 PM CDT, 6 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 3:45 PM CDT, 6 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 345 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 2004 .DISCUSSION... MODELS CONTINUE PROGRESSION OF SEVERAL BOUNDARIES THROUGH THE AREA THE NEXT WEEK. FIRST SIGNIFICANT BOUNDARY WITH GOOD UPPER SUPPORT MOVING THROUGH TONIGHT. MUCH DRYER AIR SHOULD OVERSPREAD THE AREA LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY. STRONG MOISTURE ADVECTION MAY LEAD TO SOME ELEVATED CONVECTION LATE SUNDAY NIGHT EASTERN PORTION OF CWA. THEN ANOTHER BOUNDARY MOVES THROUGH LATE MONDAY...APPEARS TO BE MAINLY A DRY LINE TYPE BOUNDARY BUT STILL GIVING MOST OF CWA A CHANCE FOR MORE STORMS BY MONDAY AFTERNOON. COOLER AIR SETTLES INTO THE AREA FOR MIDWEEK...BUT STILL ENOUGH LIFT AND MOISTURE WITH WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT FOR LINGERING CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND PERHAPS THUNDER FOR ALL OR PARTS OF CWA UNTIL WEDNESDAY EVENING. SHORT WAVE H5 RIDGING SHOULD THEN GIVE AREA A BREAK IN ACTION UNTIL ANOTHER WAVE IS EJECTED LATE THURSDAY FROM MEAN TROF POSITION IN THE WEST. THIS WAVES TIMING AND AMPLITUDE REALLY IN QUESTION AT THIS TIME. EARLIER (00Z) GFS HAD MUCH STRONGER AND FASTER WAVE MOVING INTO THE PLAINS. OTHER MODELS AND ENSEMBLES SUPPORT SLOWER MOVEMENT. WILL INCLUDE SOME LOWER POPS LATE THURSDAY AND EARLY FRIDAY WITH THIS WAVE...BUT CONFIDENCE VERY LOW. BY MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND...MUCH MORE SIGNIFICANT FULL LATITUDE WAVE APPROACHES THE CENTRAL PLAINS...AND HAVE A BIT MORE CONFIDENCE INTRODUCING SOME LOWER POPS NEXT SATURDAY. GIVEN MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND...AND STRENGTH OF UPPER SYSTEM APPROACHING...THOUGHT IT PRUDENT TO MENTION SOME PRECIPITATION AT THIS TIME. TEMPERATURE WISE...AFTER MIDWEEK COOLING...WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE TEMPERATURES MUCH WARMER THAN THOSE FORECAST BY HPC...ESPECIALLY IF 12Z GFS H850 TEMPS VERIFY. WILL AWAIT LATER RUNS...BUT FOR NOW WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES IN THE 80S CWA-WIDE THURSDAY-SATURDAY. && .TOP...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 3:52 PM CDT, 6 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 352 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 2004 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-231000- ANDERSON-BROWN-CLAY-CLOUD-COFFEY-DICKINSON-DOUGLAS-FRANKLIN-GEARY- JACKSON-JEFFERSON-LYON-MARSHALL-MORRIS-NEMAHA-OSAGE-OTTAWA- POTTAWATOMIE-REPUBLIC-RILEY-SHAWNEE-WABAUNSEE-WASHINGTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ABILENE...CLAY CENTER...CONCORDIA... EMPORIA...HIAWATHA...JUNCTION CITY...LAWRENCE...MANHATTAN... MARYSVILLE...OTTAWA AND TOPEKA 352 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL...NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL THE AREA TONIGHT...MAINLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT OVER NORTHCENTRAL AND EXTREME NORTHEAST KANSAS...THEN AFTER MIDNIGHT OVER NORTHEAST AND EASTCENTRAL KANSAS. THE MAIN THREAT WITH BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND...ALTHOUGH ISOLATED TORNADOS COULD NOT BE RULED OUT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER EAST CENTRAL KANSAS SUNDAY NIGHT. THERE IS ALSO ANOTHER CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY...AND AGAIN THURSDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE: HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/TOP (ALL LOWER CASE)
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 22, 8:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
852 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0844 PM TORNADO REPUBLIC 39.92N 97.82W
05/22/2004 REPUBLIC KS STORM CHASER
TORNADO NEAR REPUBLIC
&&Local storm report, May 22, 9:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
905 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0852 PM HAIL 1 ESE REPUBLIC 39.92N 97.80W
05/22/2004 0.75 INCH REPUBLIC KS TRAINED SPOTTER
0856 PM TORNADO 5 NE REPUBLIC 39.97N 97.75W
05/22/2004 REPUBLIC KS STORM CHASER
BRIEF TOUCHDOWN
&&Local storm report, May 22, 10:24 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1024 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1015 PM HAIL 3 N REPUBLIC 39.97N 97.82W
05/22/2004 0.75 INCH REPUBLIC KS LAW ENFORCEMENT
SHERIFF DEPUTIES REPORTING HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH
FROM NORTH OF REPUBLIC TO NEAR COURTLAND.
&&
BNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 40 min |
| May 22, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic | 38 min |
| May 22, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 44 min |
| May 22, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Washington | 27 min |
| May 22, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Washington | 46 min |
| May 22, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Ottawa | 39 min |
| May 22, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson | 46 min |
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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.