Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 28, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 21, 2006, 6:32 PM CDT for Morris County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 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
- Sep 21, 2006, 6:32 PM CDT (23:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2006, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 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), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 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 212332
TORTOP
KSC127-220000-
/O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0028.060921T2332Z-060922T0000Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
632 PM CDT THU SEP 21 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EASTERN MORRIS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 700 PM CDT
* AT 628 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 17 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF COUNCIL GROVE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
COUNCIL GROVE...
COUNCIL GROVE LAKE...
WILSEY...
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 3883 9650 3881 9638 3874 9638 3873 9636
3853 9642 3852 9643 3852 9669 3852 9669
$$3 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KTOP 212339
SVSTOP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
639 PM CDT THU SEP 21 2006
KSC127-220000-
/O.CON.KTOP.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-060922T0000Z/
MORRIS-
639 PM CDT THU SEP 21 2006
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR EASTERN
MORRIS COUNTY...
AT 636 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF COUNCIL GROVE...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 50 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
COUNCIL GROVE AND COUNCIL GROVE LAKE.
IF A TORNADO APPROACHES...GO TO A BASEMENT OR SEEK SHELTER IN A
HALLWAY OR CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING. USE BLANKETS
OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR HEAD AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3883 9650 3881 9638 3874 9638 3873 9636
3853 9642 3852 9643 3852 9669 3852 9669
$$000
WWUS53 KTOP 212349
SVSTOP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
648 PM CDT THU SEP 21 2006
KSC127-220000-
/O.CON.KTOP.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-060922T0000Z/
MORRIS-
648 PM CDT THU SEP 21 2006
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR EAST
CENTRAL MORRIS COUNTY...
AT 645 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR COUNCIL GROVE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
COUNCIL GROVE...AND RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN MORRIS 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 3883 9650 3881 9638 3874 9638 3873 9636
3856 9637 3864 9656
$$000
WWUS53 KTOP 212356
SVSTOP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
656 PM CDT THU SEP 21 2006
KSC127-220006-
/O.EXP.KTOP.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-060922T0000Z/
MORRIS-
656 PM CDT THU SEP 21 2006
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL MORRIS COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
700 PM CDT...
AT 656 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
STORM WHICH HAD PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING IS WEAKENING AND
EXITING THE WARNED AREA...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO
EXPIRE.
RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS WERE
STILL POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN MORRIS COUNTY.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3883 9650 3881 9638 3874 9638 3873 9636
3856 9637 3864 9656
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 4:04 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Dickinson, Franklin, Geary, Lyon and 4 more | 15 hr |
| Sep 21, 4:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 52 min |
| Sep 21, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 41 min |
| Sep 21, 4:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 46 min |
| Sep 21, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 51 min |
| Sep 21, 5:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 42 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.