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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2005, 4:57 PM CDT for Brown County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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, 4:57 PM CDT (21:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2005, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Brown County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 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, 10.0 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.
- 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 042159 TORTOP KSC013-042230- /O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0009.050604T2157Z-050604T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 457 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BROWN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 456 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MORRILL... OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF HIAWATHA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MORRILL... RESERVE... THE TORNADO EAST NORTHEAST OF HIAWATHA HAS MOVED OUT OF BROWN COUNTY. 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 3999 9542 3982 9569 3988 9578 3999 9572 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KTOP 042215 SVSTOP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 513 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 KSC013-042230- /O.CON.KTOP.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-050604T2230Z/ BROWN- 513 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN BROWN COUNTY... AT 512 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES WEST OF FAIRVIEW...OR ABOUT 14 MILES WEST OF HIAWATHA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MORRILL...IOWA SAC AND FOX RESERVATION AND RESERVE. THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO NORTHEAST OF RESERVE HAS MOVED NORTHEAST OUT OF BROWN COUNTY. IF A TORNADO APPROACHES...GO TO A BASEMENT OR SEEK SHELTER IN A HALLWAY OR CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR HEAD AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3998 9542 3979 9578 3995 9578 3999 9572 $$
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, 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, 5:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 15 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.