Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2004, 4:37 PM CDT for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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 29, 2004, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2004, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Republic County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 29, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 1045 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -319 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1057 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 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 292137 SVRTOP KSC157-292215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 436 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN REPUBLIC COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 434 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTH OF COURTLAND...OR ABOUT 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... REPUBLIC A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES RAPIDLY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR SAFETY MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OR A BASEMENT AND AVOID WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 4000 9757 3967 9793 4000 9792 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 24 min |
| May 29, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud | 55 min |
| May 29, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic | 64 min |
| May 29, 6:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 17 min |
| May 29, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic | 58 min |
| May 29, 6:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Republic | 3 hr |
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.