Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 5:15 PM CDT for Cloud County, Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2004, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cloud County, KS, Republic County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 173 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.
394 WFUS53 KTOP 242215 TORTOP KSC029-157-242315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 514 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN CLOUD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS SOUTHEASTERN REPUBLIC COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 511 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF CUBA TO 12 MILES WEST OF CUBA...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 28 MILES NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA TO 12 MILES NORTH OF CONCORDIA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... CUBA AGENDA CLYDE THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES ACROSS REPUBLIC COUNTY AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR STORM SHELTER NOW STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVER WEATHER INFORMATION. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN KANSAS. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. LAT...LON 3957 9736 3957 9751 3974 9770 3988 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, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic | 45 min |
| May 24, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Washington | 57 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.