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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 2007, 8:19 PM CDT for Marshall County, Nemaha County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report 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
- Sep 6, 2007, 8:19 PM CDT (01:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2007, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:19 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 8:33 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 5 E Vermillion, KS | REPORT OF FUNNEL CLOUD RELAYED TO EMERGENCY MANAGER. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 1675 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1502 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 6.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KTOP 070120 TORTOP KSC117-131-070145- /O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0027.070907T0119Z-070907T0145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 819 PM CDT THU SEP 6 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL MARSHALL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS... WESTERN NEMAHA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS... * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 815 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF VERMILLION...OR ABOUT 19 MILES EAST OF MARYSVILLE... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... VERMILLION... BAILEYVILLE... CENTRALIA... SENECA... AT 810 PM CDT...SEVERAL SPOTTERS REPORTED STRONG ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. 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 3989 9606 3968 9598 3966 9632 3982 9637 TIME...MOT...LOC 0119Z 256DEG 23KT 3975 9628 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 7:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 2 hr |
| Sep 6, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 63 min |
| Sep 6, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 32 min |
| Sep 6, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 59 min |
| Sep 6, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 29 min |
| Sep 6, 9:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 2 hr |
| Sep 6, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 45 min |
| Sep 6, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 45 min |
| Sep 6, 9:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 37 min |
| Sep 6, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 58 min |
| Sep 6, 10:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Brown | 4 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Ottawa | 49 min |
| Sep 6, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 47 min |
| Sep 6, 11:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 4 hr |
| Sep 6, 11:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Ottawa | 4 hr |
| Sep 6, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Riley, Wabaunsee | 38 min |
| Sep 6, 11:52 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 11 hr |
| Sep 7, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 44 min |
| Sep 7, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 55 min |
| Sep 7, 1:40 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall | 42 hr |
| Sep 7, 12:39 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall | 18 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.