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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 24, 2004, 10:07 PM CDT for Pottawatomie County, Riley County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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
- Aug 24, 2004, 10:07 PM CDT (03:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2004, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 3663 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KTOP 250307 TORTOP KSC149-161-250345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1006 PM CDT TUE AUG 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS EAST CENTRAL RILEY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 1005 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OLSBURG...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF MANHATTAN... MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... OLSBURG CENTRAL AND NORTHERN TUTTLE CREEK LAKE 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 3942 9676 3932 9672 3936 9650 3949 9654 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 38 min |
| Aug 24, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 37 min |
| Aug 24, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 46 min |
| Aug 25, 6:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson | 54 min |
| Aug 25, 8:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 65 min |
| Aug 25, 8:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 56 min |
| Aug 25, 9:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 56 min |
| Aug 25, 9:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 29 min |
| Aug 25, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee | 40 min |
| Aug 25, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee | 62 min |
| Aug 25, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 46 min |
| Aug 25, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Osage | 29 min |
| Aug 25, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 33 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.