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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Topeka, KS

November 27, 2005Morris County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Nov 27, 2005, 3:01 PM CST for Morris County, Kansas. It was in force for 14 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: Nov 27, 2005, 3:01 PM CST (21:01 UTC)
Expired: Nov 27, 2005, 3:15 PM CST
In force: 14 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Morris County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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
Nov 27, 12:36 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 95 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -282 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 666 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KTOP 272102
TORTOP
KSC127-272115-
/O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0024.051127T2101Z-051127T2115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
301 PM CST SUN NOV 27 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL MORRIS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 315 PM CST

* AT 258 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
  PARKERVILLE...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JUNCTION CITY...MOVING
  NORTH AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE WHITE CITY AND RURAL AREAS NORTH OF
  WHITE CITY.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. TAKE COVER IN A
BASEMENT OR STORM SHELTER NOW

STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST
SEVER WEATHER INFORMATION.

LAT...LON 3876 9680 3875 9656 3885 9652 3885 9683

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KTOP 272114 RRA
SVSTOP

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
314 PM CST SUN NOV 27 2005

KSC127-272124-
/O.EXP.KTOP.TO.W.0024.000000T0000Z-051127T2115Z/
MORRIS-
314 PM CST SUN NOV 27 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL MORRIS COUNTY EXPIRES AT 315
PM CST...

AT 314 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
STORM WHICH HAD PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAD EXITED THE WARNED 
AREA...THUS THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

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 3876 9680 3875 9656 3885 9652 3885 9683

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 27, 9:17 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	TOP	Clay, Cloud, Marshall, Ottawa, Republic, Washington	42 hr
Nov 27, 1:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	38 min
Nov 27, 1:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TOP	Dickinson	64 min
Nov 27, 2:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay	56 min
Nov 27, 2:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TOP	Geary, Morris	39 min
Nov 27, 2:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Coffey	51 min
Nov 27, 2:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon	31 min
Nov 27, 2:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Osage	50 min
Nov 27, 2:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TOP	Geary, Riley	49 min
Nov 27, 3:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee	42 min
Nov 27, 3:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	49 min
Nov 27, 3:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TOP	Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley	33 min
Nov 27, 4:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson	60 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.