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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Topeka, KS

November 27, 2005Pottawatomie County, Riley County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Nov 27, 2005, 3:41 PM CST for Pottawatomie County, Riley County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Nov 27, 2005, 3:41 PM CST (21:41 UTC)
Expired: Nov 27, 2005, 4:30 PM CST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 27, 3:53 PM CST	TORNADO	5 N Randolph, KS

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 104 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 272144
TORTOP
KSC149-161-272230-
/O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0025.051127T2141Z-051127T2230Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS
  RILEY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 430 PM CST

* AT 336 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES         
  SOUTHWEST OF MANHATTAN...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.  ANOTHER STORM    
  LOCATED NEAR LEONARDVILLE IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY 
  TIME. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING INTERMITTENT        
  TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MANHATTAN...
  RILEY...
  TUTTLE CREEK LAKE...
  LEONARDVILLE...
  RANDOLPH...
  OLSBURG...

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

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.

LAT...LON 3927 9694 3909 9651 3955 9647 3955 9695

$$

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, 3:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TOP	Morris	14 min
Nov 27, 3:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee	42 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

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.