Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 5:03 PM CDT for Washington County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 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, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2004, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Washington County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 1:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 817 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -242 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1250 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
065 WFUS53 KTOP 242203 TORTOP KSC201-242300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 502 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN AND CENTRAL WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 459 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 23 MILES WEST OF HADDAM TO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MAHASKA...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 16 MILES NORTH OF CONCORDIA TO 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HADDAM MORROWVILLE WASHINGTON THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES ACROSS REPUBLIC COUNTY AND IN SOUTHERN NEBRASKA. TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR STORM SHELTER NOW 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 4000 9737 4000 9723 3983 9691 3959 9736 $$
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, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic | 45 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.