Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT for Jackson County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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
- May 24, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2004, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jackson County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 1:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 3762 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 6.4
- Supercell composite
- 25.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
074
WUUS53 KTOP 250130
SVRTOP
KSC085-250215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
830 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN AND EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS
* UNTIL 915 PM CDT
* AT 827 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF DENISON TO 4 MILES
NORTHWEST OF DELIA...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 23 MILES WEST
OF ATCHISON TO 24 MILES NORTHWEST OF TOPEKA...MOVING EAST AT 30
MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
POTAWATOMI RESERVATION
DENISON
MAYETTA
HOYT
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 3943 9558 3922 9559 3922 9604 3932 9603
3957 9556
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage, Wabaunsee | 30 min |
| May 24, 7:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 39 min |
| May 24, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee | 62 min |
| May 24, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 67 min |
| May 24, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Osage | 47 min |
| May 24, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson | 24 min |
| May 24, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 53 min |
| May 24, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas | 17 min |
| May 24, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 63 min |
| May 24, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Franklin | 45 min |
| May 24, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Franklin, Osage | 57 min |
| May 24, 9:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Franklin | 36 min |
| May 24, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey | 29 min |
| May 24, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 39 min |
| May 24, 9:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Coffey | 34 min |
| May 24, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 40 min |
| May 24, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 32 min |
| May 24, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 36 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.