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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Topeka, KS

May 24, 2004Douglas County, Jefferson County, Shawnee County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 7:28 PM CDT for Douglas County, Jefferson County, Shawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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, 7:28 PM CDT (00:28 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Douglas County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Shawnee County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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.

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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 9 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KTOP 250028
TORTOP
KSC045-087-177-250130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
727 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
  SOUTHEASTERN SHAWNEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
  SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 725 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES
  SOUTH OF TOPEKA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SOUTH TOPEKA
  GRANTVILLE
  LECOMPTON
  PERRY
  WILLIAMSTOWN
  OSKALOOSA

IF A TORNADO APPROACHES...GO TO A BASEMENT OR SEEK SHELTER IN A
HALLWAY OR CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING. USE BLANKETS
OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR HEAD AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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 3899 9581 3886 9572 3900 9511 3925 9526

$$

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, 7:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	39 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.