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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2004, 5:56 PM CDT for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 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 29, 2004, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2004, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 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), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 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 29, 6:04 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 3 W Norway, KS | |
| May 29, 6:44 PM CDT | HAIL 2.75 | Norway, KS | |
| May 29, 6:45 PM CDT | TORNADO | 3 N Norway, KS | POWER POLES DOWN. |
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 29, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 2060 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 792 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
446
WFUS53 KTOP 292256
TORTOP
KSC157-300000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
556 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN REPUBLIC COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 700 PM CDT
* AT 555 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF NORWAY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED NEAR JAMESTOWN AT
555 PM.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NORWAY
COURTLAND
SCANDIA
ANOTHER AREA OF ROTATION WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST JEWELL
COUNTY...ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. TAKE COVER IN A
BASEMENT OR STORM SHELTER NOW
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING. AS A
LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER
YOUR HEAD.
STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST
SEVER WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3978 9764 3965 9772 3965 9793 3983 9793
3984 9783
$$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, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 38 min |
| May 29, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud | 55 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 |
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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.