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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Topeka, KS

August 25, 2004Osage County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 25, 2004, 6:31 PM CDT for Osage County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report 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: Aug 25, 2004, 6:31 PM CDT (23:31 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2004, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Osage County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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
Aug 25, 6:45 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	1 Ne Carbondale, KS	TREES BLOWN DOWN 1 NE CARBONDALE

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
Aug 25, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 25 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: 1549 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -196 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KTOP 252331
TORTOP
KSC139-260000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
631 PM CDT WED AUG 25 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN OSAGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 628 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A POSSIBLE   
TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF OVERBROOK...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTH OF 
TOPEKA...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  OVERBROOK

FOR YOUR SAFETY...GO TO A STORM SHELTER OR BASEMENT NOW TORNADOES
MAY HAVE WINDS GREATER THAN 100 MPH. AVOID OVERPASSES AND WINDOWS.
COVER YOUR HEAD.

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

LAT...LON 3873 9550 3873 9568 3886 9569 3887 9549

$$

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, 10:07 PM CDT	Tornado 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, 6:42 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.