Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 21, 2006, 7:32 PM CDT for Clay County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 21, 2006, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2006, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clay County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 7:45 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 3 Ne Idana, KS | REPORT RELAYED BY NSSL. |
| Jun 21, 8:14 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | 2 Ssw Idana, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 2556 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KTOP 220032 TORTOP KSC027-220115- /O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0022.060622T0032Z-060622T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 732 PM CDT WED JUN 21 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL CLAY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 726 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF IDANA...OR ABOUT 14 MILES WEST OF CLAY CENTER...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... IDANA... CLAY CENTER... RURAL RESIDENTS OF CENTRAL CLAY 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 SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3941 9736 3932 9742 3926 9712 3939 9709 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KTOP 220044 SVSTOP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 743 PM CDT WED JUN 21 2006 KSC027-220115- /O.CON.KTOP.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-060622T0115Z/ CLAY- 743 PM CDT WED JUN 21 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL CLAY COUNTY... AT 741 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF IDANA...OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF CLAY CENTER...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... IDANA...CLAY CENTER AND RURAL RESIDENTS OF CENTRAL CLAY COUNTY. IF A TORNADO APPROACHES...GO TO A BASEMENT OR SEEK SHELTER IN A HALLWAY OR CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR HEAD AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3940 9736 3931 9741 3926 9712 3939 9709 $$
000 WWUS53 KTOP 220113 SVSTOP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 812 PM CDT WED JUN 21 2006 KSC027-220122- /O.EXP.KTOP.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-060622T0115Z/ CLAY- 812 PM CDT WED JUN 21 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL CLAY COUNTY EXPIRES AT 815 PM CDT... AT 812 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 WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM FOR SOUTHWESTERN CLAY COUNTY. RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...LARGE HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS TO 60 MPH WERE POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3940 9736 3931 9741 3926 9712 3939 9709 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud | 39 min |
| Jun 21, 7:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Republic | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 39 min |
| Jun 21, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Ottawa | 43 min |
| Jun 21, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Ottawa | 58 min |
| Jun 21, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris | 44 min |
| Jun 22, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 40 min |
| Jun 22, 1:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 36 min |
| Jun 22, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 40 min |
| Jun 22, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 16 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.