Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 26, NWS Topeka, KS
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 20 min |
| Aug 23, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 43 min |
| Aug 23, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 47 min |
| Aug 23, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 47 min |
| Aug 23, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 3:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Brown | 4 hr |
| Aug 24, 3:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Brown | 3 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.