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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2007, 10:58 PM CDT for Douglas County, Jefferson County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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
- Mar 30, 2007, 10:58 PM CDT (03:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2007, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Douglas County, KS, Jefferson County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 312 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 786 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KTOP 310358
TORTOP
KSC045-087-310430-
/O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0010.070331T0358Z-070331T0430Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1058 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EXTREME NORTHWESTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTHWEST JEFFERSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...
* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
* AT 1056 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTH
OF PERRY LAKE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF TOPEKA...MOVING NORTH AT
30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PERRY 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 WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST
SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3900 9550 3901 9543 3923 9542 3922 9551
3905 9550
$$3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KTOP 310407 SVSTOP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1106 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007 KSC045-310416- /O.CAN.KTOP.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-070331T0430Z/ DOUGLAS- 1106 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EXTREME NORTHWEST DOUGLAS COUNTY HAD MOVED NORTH INTO SOUTHWEST JEFFERSON COUNTY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3905 9550 3907 9543 3923 9542 3922 9552 $$ KSC087-310430- /O.CON.KTOP.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-070331T0430Z/ JEFFERSON- 1106 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1130 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWEST JEFFERSON COUNTY... AT 1104 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO BETWEEN GRANTVILLE AND PERRY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF TOPEKA...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PERRY 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 3905 9550 3907 9543 3923 9542 3922 9552 $$
000 WWUS53 KTOP 310420 SVSTOP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1120 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007 KSC087-310430- /O.CON.KTOP.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-070331T0430Z/ JEFFERSON- 1120 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1130 PM CDT FOR WEST CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTY... AT 1117 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PERRY LAKE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF TOPEKA...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PERRY LAKE... OZAWKIE. IF A TORNADO APPROACHES...GO TO A BASEMENT OR SEEK SHELTER IN A HALLWAY OR CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR HEAD AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3916 9550 3915 9543 3923 9542 3922 9552 $$
000 WWUS53 KTOP 310427 SVSTOP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1126 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007 KSC087-310436- /O.EXP.KTOP.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-070331T0430Z/ JEFFERSON- 1126 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL JEFFERSON COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 1130 PM CDT... AT 1126 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED AND NO LONGER APPEARED CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS WERE STILL POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3916 9550 3915 9543 3923 9542 3922 9552 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Morris, Wabaunsee | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 9:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Geary, Wabaunsee | 24 min |
| Mar 30, 10:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Osage | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 11:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 11:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 4 hr |
| Mar 31, 12:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Washington | 4 hr |
| Mar 31, 12:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 4 hr |
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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.