Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2007, 12:30 PM CST for Dickinson County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 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
- Feb 24, 2007, 12:30 PM CST (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2007, 1:00 PM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dickinson County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 12:41 PM CST | HAIL 0.75 | 4 Sw Hope, KS | REPORT RELAYED FROM WFO-WICHITA. STORM SPOTTER REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL COVERING THE GROUND APPROXIMATELY 1 MILE NORTH OF RAMONA. |
| Feb 24, 12:57 PM CST | HAIL 1 | 3 S Solomon, KS | A SPOTTER DRIVING NORTH TOWARD SOLOMON CAME ACROSS AN AREA OF LAND COVERED WITH NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL. TIME IS ESTIMATED. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 11:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 1073 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 396 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 392 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 241832 TORTOP KSC041-241900- /O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0001.070224T1830Z-070224T1900Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1230 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN DICKINSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 100 PM CST * AT 1228 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF HOPE...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTH OF MARION...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HOPE... CARLTON... ENTERPRISE... AT 1228 PM CHASERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER NORTHERN MARION 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 3860 9729 3859 9701 3891 9703 3889 9737 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KTOP 241848 SVSTOP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1245 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007 KSC041-241900- /O.CON.KTOP.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-070224T1900Z/ DICKINSON- 1245 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CST FOR SOUTHERN DICKINSON COUNTY... AT 1245 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOPE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF ABILENE...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ENTERPRISE AND AREAS SOUTH OF ABILENE. AT 1240 PM DIME SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED COVERING THE GROUND 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOPE. IF A TORNADO APPROACHES...GO TO A BASEMENT OR SEEK SHELTER IN A HALLWAY OR CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR HEAD AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3869 9731 3867 9705 3891 9703 3889 9737 $$
000 WWUS53 KTOP 241855 SVSTOP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1253 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007 KSC041-241903- /O.EXP.KTOP.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-070224T1900Z/ DICKINSON- 1253 PM CST SAT FEB 24 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN DICKINSON COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 1 PM... AT 1253 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAD WEAKENED AND NO LONGER APPEARED CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER...THUS THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. RADAR INDICATED THAT NICKEL SIZE HAIL WAS POSSIBLE FROM A DIFFERENT THUNDERSTORM THAT WILL MOVE OVER SOLOMON. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. STAY ALERT TO THE WEATHER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3869 9731 3867 9705 3891 9703 3889 9737 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 1:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 45 min |
| Feb 24, 4:16 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Ottawa, Republic, Washington | 18 hr |
| Feb 24, 4:16 AM CST | Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory | TOP | Brown, Dickinson, Geary, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 24, 1:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 13 min |
| Feb 24, 3:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 25 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.