Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2004, 6:47 PM CDT for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min. 4 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, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 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), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:06 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Belleville, KS | |
| May 29, 7:36 PM CDT | TORNADO | 5 Sw Munden, KS | |
| May 29, 7:37 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 W Cuba, KS | |
| May 29, 7:50 PM CDT | TORNADO | 2 S Munden, KS |
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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 196 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.
000 WFUS53 KTOP 292347 TORTOP KSC157-300045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 647 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... REPUBLIC COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 645 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF NORWAY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTH OF CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BELLEVILLE MUNDEN THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHWEST REPUBLIC COUNTY. IF A TORNADO APPROACHES...GO TO A BASEMENT OR SEEK SHELTER IN A HALLWAY OR CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR HEAD AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVER WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3969 9788 3966 9767 3990 9736 3998 9763 $$
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, 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, 6:57 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.