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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2005, 5:33 PM CDT for Pottawatomie County, Kansas. It was in force for 15 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
- Jun 4, 2005, 5:33 PM CDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2005, 5:48 PM CDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pottawatomie County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1005 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KTOP 042233
TORTOP
KSC149-042315-
/O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0011.050604T2233Z-050604T2315Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
533 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS
* UNTIL 615 PM CDT
* AT 530 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF
LOUISVILLE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF MANHATTAN...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LOUISVILLE...
WESTMORELAND...
ONAGA...
HAVENSVILLE...
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.
LAT...LON 3948 9603 3922 9625 3919 9640 3925 9655
3927 9655 3937 9645 3939 9643 3955 9628
3956 9604
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KTOP 042248
SVSTOP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
547 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005
KSC149-042257-
/O.CAN.KTOP.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-050604T2315Z/
POTTAWATOMIE-
547 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED
BUT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 600 PM...
AT 547 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH THE POSSIBLE TORNADO HAD WEAKENED AND NO
LONGER APPEARED CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES...THUS THE TORNADO
WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THIS STORM IS STILL CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE
TORNADOES RAPIDLY.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3948 9603 3922 9625 3919 9640 3925 9655
3927 9655 3937 9645 3939 9643 3955 9628
3956 9604
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson, Nemaha | 49 min |
| Jun 4, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Pottawatomie | 24 min |
| Jun 4, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 39 min |
| Jun 4, 4:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown | 52 min |
| Jun 4, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 27 min |
| Jun 4, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Riley | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 12 min |
| Jun 4, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley | 52 min |
| Jun 4, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 43 min |
| Jun 4, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 51 min |
| Jun 4, 5:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley | 63 min |
| Jun 4, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 25 min |
| Jun 4, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Jackson, Pottawatomie, Riley, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 49 min |
| Jun 4, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 55 min |
| Jun 4, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 30 min |
| Jun 4, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson | 24 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.