Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 2004, 3:58 PM CDT for Cloud County, Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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
- Jul 7, 2004, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2004, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cloud County, KS, Ottawa County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 4:20 PM CDT | HAIL 2.5 | 7 N Ada, KS | |
| Jul 7, 4:28 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Delphos, KS | |
| Jul 7, 4:42 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 2 Nw Minneapolis, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1430 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KTOP 072058 TORTOP KSC029-143-072145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 358 PM CDT WED JUL 7 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN CLOUD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS OTTAWA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 353 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR GLASCO...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... DELPHOS ADA TESCOTT MINNEAPOLIS CULVER BENNINGTON A TORNADO WAS REPORTED EARLIER IN EASTERN MITCHELL 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 3936 9776 3935 9793 3896 9793 3896 9740 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 57 min |
| Jul 7, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 55 min |
| Jul 7, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 47 min |
| Jul 7, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 48 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.