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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Topeka, KS

May 24, 2004Republic County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 4:30 PM CDT for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2004, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2004, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 45 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), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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.

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 24, 1:10 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 198 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 731 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 289 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KTOP 242130
TORTOP
KSC157-242215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
429 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 429 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED SEVERAL TORNADOS 
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF MUNDEN TO NEAR 
REPUBLIC...OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING 
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  COURTLAND
  SCANDIA
  MUNDEN
  NORWAY
  NARKA
  BELLEVILLE
  CUBA
  AGENDA

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.

THIS REPLACES THE PREVIOUS TORNADO WARNING FOR REPUBLIC COUNTY.
LAT...LON 3999 9793 3967 9793 3966 9737 4000 9738

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 4:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Republic	56 min
May 24, 5:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Washington	57 min
May 24, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic	60 min
May 24, 5:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Clay, Riley, Washington	46 min
May 24, 6:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Marshall	46 min
May 24, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee	48 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.