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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 25, 2004, 7:01 PM CDT for Douglas County, 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, 7:01 PM CDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2004, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Douglas County, KS, Osage County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 7:09 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 6 E Overbrook, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 2879 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1214 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.4
- Supercell composite
- 20.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KTOP 260001
TORTOP
KSC045-139-260030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
700 PM CDT WED AUG 25 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
NORTHEASTERN OSAGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 730 PM CDT
* AT 658 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR
OVERBROOK...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF OTTAWA...MOVING EAST AT
15 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
INDICATED COUNTIES.
LEAVE MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES...AND GO TO A BASEMENT OR STORM
SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH
OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD. AVOID OVERPASSES.
STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST
SEVER WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3872 9559 3883 9560 3886 9558 3886 9550
3890 9549 3889 9530 3874 9528 3874 9549
3872 9552
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 45 min |
| Aug 25, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Franklin | 49 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.