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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 5, 2007, 10:26 PM CDT for Pottawatomie County, Riley County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 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
- May 5, 2007, 10:26 PM CDT (03:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2007, 11:03 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 10:34 PM CDT | TORNADO | 2 Se St. George, KS | PUBLIC REPORTED TORNADO 6 MILES NORTH OF 323 EXIT ON I70 |
| May 5, 11:04 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 4 Sse St. George, KS | TELEPHONE POLES REPORTED DOWN AT THE INTERSECTION OF TALLGRASS ROAD AND TABOR VALLEY ROAD 3 MILES NORTH OF I70. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 9:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 1963 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1234 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 294 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 10.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KTOP 060326 TORTOP KSC149-161-197-060415- /O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0019.070506T0326Z-070506T0415Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1026 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN WABAUNSEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... SOUTH CENTRAL POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS... SOUTHEASTERN RILEY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS... * UNTIL 1115 PM CDT * AT 1024 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTH OF ST. GEORGE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MANHATTAN...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ST. GEORGE... WAMEGO... LOUISVILLE... THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 70 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 317 AND 325. 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 3906 9650 3904 9633 3935 9619 3939 9647 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KTOP 060347 SVSTOP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1044 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007 KSC161-197-060354- /O.CAN.KTOP.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-070506T0415Z/ RILEY-WABAUNSEE- 1044 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WABAUNSEE AND RILEY COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE STORM HAS EXITED WABAUNSEE AND RILEY COUNTIES...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3918 9644 3916 9631 3935 9619 3939 9647 $$ KSC149-060415- /O.CON.KTOP.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-070506T0415Z/ POTTAWATOMIE- 1044 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY... AT 1040 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ST. GEORGE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF MANHATTAN...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LOUISVILLE. AT 1034 PM...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ST. GEORGE. 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 3918 9644 3916 9631 3935 9619 3939 9647 $$
000 WWUS53 KTOP 060403 SVSTOP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1103 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007 KSC149-060413- /O.CAN.KTOP.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-070506T0415Z/ POTTAWATOMIE- 1103 PM CDT SAT MAY 5 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 1103 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH THE POSSIBLE TORNADO HAD WEAKENED AND NO LONGER APPEARED CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS WERE STILL POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. STAY ALERT TO THE WEATHER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3918 9644 3916 9631 3935 9619 3939 9647 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 34 min |
| May 5, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 55 min |
| May 5, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 31 min |
| May 5, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley | 47 min |
| May 5, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 15 min |
| May 5, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 27 min |
| May 5, 11:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall | 45 min |
| May 5, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee | 37 min |
| May 5, 11:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 42 min |
| May 5, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 45 min |
| May 5, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 47 min |
| May 5, 11:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud | 46 min |
| May 6, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson | 30 min |
| May 6, 12:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay, Washington | 45 min |
| May 6, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Riley | 40 min |
| May 6, 12:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Pottawatomie, Washington | 54 min |
| May 6, 1:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 4 hr |
| May 6, 1:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Clay, Marshall, Riley | 4 hr |
| May 6, 1:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Marshall, Riley | 4 hr |
| May 6, 3:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Brown, Geary, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Riley | 4 hr |
| May 6, 4:09 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TOP | Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more | 27 hr |
| May 6, 6:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee | 4 hr |
| May 6, 6:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 4 hr |
| May 6, 7:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas, Osage | 4 hr |
| May 6, 12:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 4 hr |
| May 6, 6:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.