Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 7:21 PM CDT for Osage County, Shawnee County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2004, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 3762 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 6.4
- Supercell composite
- 25.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KTOP 250021 TORTOP KSC139-177-197-250100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 721 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN OSAGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS SOUTHWESTERN SHAWNEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS SOUTHEASTERN WABAUNSEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 719 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR HARVEYVILLE...OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOPEKA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... AUBURN HARVEYVILLE 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. 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 3882 9609 3873 9598 3888 9562 3904 9583 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage, Wabaunsee | 30 min |
| May 24, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee | 62 min |
| May 24, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 67 min |
| May 24, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Osage | 47 min |
| May 24, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson | 24 min |
| May 24, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 53 min |
| May 24, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas | 17 min |
| May 24, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson | 45 min |
| May 24, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 63 min |
| May 24, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Franklin | 45 min |
| May 24, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Franklin, Osage | 57 min |
| May 24, 9:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Franklin | 36 min |
| May 24, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey | 29 min |
| May 24, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 39 min |
| May 24, 9:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Coffey | 34 min |
| May 24, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 40 min |
| May 24, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 32 min |
| May 24, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 36 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.