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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Topeka, KS

August 24, 2007Brown County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 24, 2007, 4:35 PM CDT for Brown County, Kansas. It was in force for 10 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
Aug 24, 2007, 4:35 PM CDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 2007, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
10 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Brown County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 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 (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2007-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2007-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -111 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1236 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KTOP 242135
TORTOP
KSC013-242145-
/O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0026.070824T2135Z-070824T2145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
435 PM CDT FRI AUG 24 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN BROWN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 431 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 1 MILE 
NORTH OF EVEREST...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HIAWATHA...MOVING 
EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF BROWN COUNTY ALONG HIGHWAY 20.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. TAKE COVER IN A
BASEMENT OR STORM SHELTER NOW

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 3965 9533 3965 9545 3971 9545 3973 9545
      3975 9544 3976 9534 3976 9533

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS53 KTOP 242145
SVSTOP

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
446 PM CDT FRI AUG 24 2007

KSC013-242156-
/O.EXP.KTOP.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-070824T2145Z/
BROWN-
446 PM CDT FRI AUG 24 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN BROWN COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...

AT 446 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
STORM WHICH HAD PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAD EXITED THE WARNED
AREA...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.

LAT...LON 3965 9533 3965 9545 3971 9545 3973 9545
      3975 9544 3976 9534 3976 9533

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 23, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall20 min
Aug 23, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPRepublic43 min
Aug 23, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Washington47 min
Aug 23, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall47 min
Aug 23, 11:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPNemaha30 min
Aug 24, 3:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPBrown4 hr
Aug 24, 3:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPBrown3 hr

Nearby

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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.