Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 27, 2007, 4:57 PM CDT for Douglas County, Kansas. It was in force for 16 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
- Apr 27, 2007, 4:57 PM CDT (21:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2007, 5:13 PM CDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Douglas County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 1733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 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 272158
TORTOP
KSC045-272230-
/O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0011.070427T2157Z-070427T2230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
457 PM CDT FRI APR 27 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 530 PM CDT
* AT 455 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
SOUTHEASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
LAWRENCE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY...
AT 457 PM CDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR BALDWIN CITY.
FOR YOUR SAFETY...GO TO A STORM SHELTER OR BASEMENT NOW TORNADOES
MAY HAVE WINDS GREATER THAN 100 MPH. AVOID OVERPASSES AND WINDOWS...
AND COVER YOUR HEAD.
STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST
SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3879 9516 3882 9516 3884 9516 3883 9511
3883 9507 3882 9505 3874 9506 3874 9507
3875 9516
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KTOP 272207
SVSTOP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
506 PM CDT FRI APR 27 2007
KSC045-272230-
/O.CON.KTOP.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-070427T2230Z/
DOUGLAS-
506 PM CDT FRI APR 27 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR EXTREME
SOUTHEASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY...
AT 505 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED OVER EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY...OR ABOUT
13 MILES WEST OF SPRING HILL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
THE STORM SHOULD EXIT EXTREME SOUTHEAST DOUGLAS COUNTY IN THE NEXT 5
MINUTES.
FOR YOUR SAFETY...GO TO A STORM SHELTER OR BASEMENT NOW TORNADOES
MAY HAVE WINDS GREATER THAN 100 MPH. AVOID OVERPASSES AND WINDOWS...
AND COVER YOUR HEAD.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3875 9511 3879 9510 3879 9509 3879 9506
3879 9505 3874 9506 3874 9507
$$000
WWUS53 KTOP 272213
SVSTOP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
513 PM CDT FRI APR 27 2007
KSC045-272223-
/O.CAN.KTOP.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-070427T2230Z/
DOUGLAS-
513 PM CDT FRI APR 27 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY HAS
BEEN CANCELLED...
AT 513 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH THE POSSIBLE TORNADO HAD EXITED DOUGLAS
COUNTY...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS WERE
STILL POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHERN
DOUGLAS COUNTY.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3875 9511 3879 9510 3879 9509 3879 9506
3879 9505 3874 9506 3874 9507
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Franklin | 22 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.