Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 29, 2004, 7:09 PM CST for Osage County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 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, 7:09 PM CST (01:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 29, 2004, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Osage County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:11 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
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 nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 39 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.
926 WUUS53 KTOP 010109 SVRTOP KSC139-010145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 709 PM CST SUN FEB 29 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN OSAGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 745 PM CST * AT 706 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OSAGE CITY...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHEAST OF EMPORIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... OSAGE CITY BURLINGAME SCRANTON CARBONDALE QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM AT READING AT 705 PM. 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 3859 9596 3852 9581 3885 9557 3885 9584 $$
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 Feb 29, 3:10 PM CST, 3 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 29, 3:10 PM CST, 3 hours 59 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KANSAS 3 PM SUN FEB 29 2004 .DISCUSSION... LATEST SATELLITE SHOWING STRONG NEGATIVE TILT SHORTWAVE ROTATING OUT TO THE NORTHEAST ACROSS NORTHERN OK/SOUTHERN KS PROGGED TO LIFT ACROSS THE CWA BY EARLY THIS EVENING AS UPPER LOW LIFTS NORTHEAST ACROSS WESTCENTRAL KANSAS AND INTO SOUTHERN NEBRASKA MONDAY MORNING. CURRENT LARGE SHIELD OF SHOWERS AND A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE ENTIRE CWA SHOULD DECREASE FROM SOUTH TO NORTH ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE EVENING AS DRY SLOT NOSES NORTHWARD. ALTHOUGH THE MAIN AREA OF PRECIP WILL LIFT NORTH OF THE CWA BY LATER THIS EVENING...A NEW AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHWEST OK MAY ALSO DEVELOP AND SPREAD NORTHEAST WITH THE COLD POOL INTO THE SOUTHWEST PORTIONS OF THE CWA THIS EVENING...THEN THE THREAT FOR WRAPAROUND SHOWERS MOVES BACK ACROSS THE NORTHWEST AREAS OF THE CWA AFTER MIDNIGHT AS UPPER LOW LIFTS TO THE NORTH. ALTHOUGH LOW LEVEL THICKNESSES APPEAR TOO WARM FOR SNOW...MID LEVEL THICKNESS WILL BE COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW OVER THE NORTH CENTRAL AFTER MIDNIGHT AND WITH LOWS LATER IN THE NIGHT IN THE 30S...CANT RULE OUT SOME SNOW MAKING IT THE GROUND WITH ANY PRECIP THAT WOULD WRAP INTO THE AREA. WILL KEEP WINDS GUSTS TO AROUND 35 MPH GOING IN STRONG GRADIENT. AS THE UPPER LOW MOVES EAST AND NORTHEAST OF THE CWA ON MONDAY...STILL HAVE A CHANCE TO SEE A RAIN/SNOW MIX POSSIBLE ACROSS THE NORTH IN THE MORNING WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE AS FAR SOUTH AS I-70...THEN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF LIGHT RAIN LINGERING OVER THE FAR NORTHEAST IN THE AFTERNOON. WILL KEEP HIGHS A LITTLE BELOW GUIDANCE DUE TO EXPECTED LOW CLOUDS ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA WRAPPING AROUND THE LOW. WIND GUSTS WILL REMAIN IN THE 30-40 MPH RANGE MOST AREAS. PRECIP THREAT ENDS ACROSS THE ENTIRE CWA BY MONDAY EVENING AS UPPER LOW PULLS AWAY...ALTHOUGH CLOUDS WILL BE SLOW TO GIVE WAY INTO TUESDAY. NEXT SHORTWAVE TROUGH BEGINS TO DIG INTO THE SOUTHWEST U.S. AND BEGINS TO AFFECT THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA LATE TUESDAY NIGHT WITH A CHANCE FOR RAIN. APPEARS THICKNESSES COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE NORTHERN CWA ONLY BY THAT TIME WITH WAA THEN UNDERWAY THROUGH THE DAY WEDNESDAY BEFORE COLD AIR MOVES BACK IN BY THURSDAY MORNING AND THROUGH THE DAY. WILL THEREFORE KEEP PRECIP AS RAIN ACROSS THE CWA LATE TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY WITH A CHANCE FOR A MIXTURE OF RAIN OR SNOW NORTHWEST HALF WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND OVER THE ENTIRE AREA BY THURSDAY AFTERNOON AS CAA WITHIN AREA OF HEIGHTS FALLS FROM ADVANCING TROUGH MOVES THROUGH. FOR NOW...EXPECT PRECIP TO END BY THURSDAY EVENING...THEN DRY ON INTO THE WEEKEND AS CENTRAL ROCKIES SHORTWAVE ON FRIDAY EXPECTED TO STAY MAINLY SOUTH OF THE CWA. TEMPERATURES SHOULD MODERATE INTO THE UPPER 40S AND LOWER 50S BY THE WEEKEND. && .TOP...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 29, 4:35 PM CST, 2 hours 34 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 435 PM CST SUN FEB 29 2004 KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058-059-011100- 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 435 PM CST SUN FEB 29 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL...NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BRIEFLY BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL. ANY STORMS THAT OCCUR SHOULD WEAKEN BY 8 PM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY SOME SNOW MAY FALL OVER PARTS OF THE AREA...MAINLY TO THE NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70...FROM ANOTHER WEATHER SYSTEM MOVING INTO THE PLAINS WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY. HOWEVER, IT IS TOO EARLY TO SAY JUST HOW MUCH SNOW THIS NEXT SYSTEM MAY BRING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS MAY STILL BE NEEDED THROUGH THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. && 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, Feb 29, 5:18 PM CST, 1 hour 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
518 PM CST SUN FEB 29 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0330 PM TSTM WND DMG 3 SE JUNCTION CITY 39.00N 96.79W
02/29/2004 GEARY KS EMERGENCY MNGR
2 OUTBUILDINGS DESTROYED.
&&
DSLocal storm report, Feb 29, 5:54 PM CST, 1 hour 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
554 PM CST SUN FEB 29 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0552 PM HAIL 1 NW TESCOTT 39.02N 97.89W
02/29/2004 0.75 INCH OTTAWA KS TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
DSLocal storm report, Feb 29, 6:07 PM CST, 1 hour 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
607 PM CST SUN FEB 29 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0602 PM HAIL ADA 39.15N 97.89W
02/29/2004 1.00 INCH OTTAWA KS TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
DSLocal storm report, Feb 29, 6:37 PM CST, 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT ... CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
637 PM CST SUN FEB 29 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0630 PM HAIL 7 SE GLASCO 39.28N 97.75W
02/29/2004 1.00 INCH OTTAWA KS TRAINED SPOTTER
0625 PM HAIL 5 SE GLASCO 39.31N 97.77W
02/29/2004 0.88 INCH CLOUD KS TRAINED SPOTTER
0602 PM HAIL ADA 39.15N 97.89W
02/29/2004 1.00 INCH OTTAWA KS TRAINED SPOTTER
0552 PM HAIL 1 NW TESCOTT 39.02N 97.89W
02/29/2004 0.75 INCH OTTAWA KS TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
DSLocal storm report, Feb 29, 7:07 PM CST, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
707 PM CST SUN FEB 29 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0705 PM HAIL READING 38.52N 95.95W
02/29/2004 1.00 INCH LYON KS TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
DSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 6:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 40 min |
| 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, 7:16 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
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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.