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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Topeka, KS

May 22, 2004Republic County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2004, 8:37 PM CDT for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 min. 3 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, 8:37 PM CDT (01:37 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2004, 9:15 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), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 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, 8:44 PM CDT	TORNADO	Republic, KS	TORNADO NEAR REPUBLIC
May 22, 8:52 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	1 Ese Republic, KS
May 22, 8:56 PM CDT	TORNADO	5 Ne Republic, KS	BRIEF TOUCHDOWN

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2882 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1091 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 260 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 4.2
Supercell composite: 16.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

272 
WFUS53 KTOP 230137
TORTOP
KSC157-230215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
837 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN REPUBLIC COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 836 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF
  REPUBLIC...OR ABOUT 26 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  REPUBLIC

FOR YOUR SAFETY...GO TO A STORM SHELTER OR BASEMENT NOW TORNADOES
MAY HAVE WINDS GREATER THAN 100 MPH. AVOID OVERPASSES AND WINDOWS.
COVER YOUR HEAD.

STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST
SEVER WEATHER INFORMATION.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHEASTERN KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3996 9792 3981 9792 3999 9751 4000 9772
          3999 9792

$$

The 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, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Republic	44 min
May 22, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic	40 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.