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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Topeka, KS

May 29, 2004Republic County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2004, 7:44 PM CDT for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 min. 5 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, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2004, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 61 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), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:48 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, 7:50 PM CDT	TORNADO	2 S Munden, KS
May 29, 8:09 PM CDT	TORNADO	Munden, KS
May 29, 8:30 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 60	2 S Narka, KS	NUMEROUS 6 TO 8 INCH TREE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN
May 29, 8:30 PM CDT	HAIL 1.25	2 S Narka, KS
May 29, 8:32 PM CDT	TORNADO	1 S Narka, 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 1892 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1114 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.1

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The text

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

270 
WFUS53 KTOP 300044
TORTOP
KSC157-300145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
743 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 742 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
A   LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH A HISTORY OF PRODUCING 
ORNADOES...ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES SOUTH OF MUNDEN TO 4 
MILES SOUTH OF   REPUBLIC...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 21 MILES 
NORTH OF   CONCORDIA TO 22 MILES NORTH OF CONCORDIA...MOVING 
NORTHEAST AT 15   MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  REPUBLIC
  MUNDEN
  NARKA

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. TAKE COVER IN A
BASEMENT OR STORM SHELTER NOW

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

LAT...LON 3982 9741 3987 9785 4000 9782 4000 9737

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 7:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Marshall	62 min
May 29, 8:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Marshall, Washington	60 min
May 29, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Republic	30 min
May 29, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic	56 min
May 29, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Ottawa	47 min
May 30, 12:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Dickinson, Ottawa	47 min
May 30, 12:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	51 min
May 30, 1:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	43 min
May 30, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown	35 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.