Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Feb 28, 2007, 8:00 PM CST for Franklin County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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
- Feb 28, 2007, 8:00 PM CST (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2007, 8:45 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Franklin County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 8:15 PM CST | HAIL 1.75 | Williamsburg, KS |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 5:07 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 2552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 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 010200 TORTOP KSC059-010245- /O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0004.070301T0200Z-070301T0245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 800 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FRANKLIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 845 PM CST * AT 758 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WILLIAMSBURG...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OTTAWA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WILLIAMSBURG... PRINCETON... THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 35 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 169 AND 188. IF A TORNADO APPROACHES...GO TO A BASEMENT OR SEEK SHELTER IN A HALLWAY OR CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR HEAD AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3852 9551 3839 9550 3839 9517 3867 9514 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KTOP 010214 SVSTOP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 813 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007 KSC059-010245- /O.CON.KTOP.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-070301T0245Z/ FRANKLIN- 813 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM CST FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY... AT 812 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS ROTATION WAS LOCATED 4 MILES EAST OF WILLIAMSBURG...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OTTAWA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PRINCETON... IN ADDITION...GOLFBALL TO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL IS LIKELY ALONG INTERSTATE 35 INCLUDING THE CITY OF OTTAWA. IF A TORNADO APPROACHES...GO TO A BASEMENT OR SEEK SHELTER IN A HALLWAY OR CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR HEAD AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3852 9551 3839 9550 3839 9517 3867 9514 $$
000 WWUS53 KTOP 010219 SVSTOP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 819 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007 KSC059-010245- /O.CON.KTOP.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-070301T0245Z/ FRANKLIN- 819 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM CST FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY... AT 817 PM CST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A WALL CLOUD. THIS WALL CLOUD WAS LOCATED 3 MILES WEST OF PRINCETON...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF OTTAWA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PRINCETON. GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL IS LIKELY ALONG INTERSTATE 35 INCLUDING THE CITY OF OTTAWA. IF A TORNADO APPROACHES...GO TO A BASEMENT OR SEEK SHELTER IN A HALLWAY OR CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR HEAD AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3852 9551 3839 9550 3839 9517 3867 9514 $$
000 WWUS53 KTOP 010249 SVSTOP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 848 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007 KSC059-010258- /O.EXP.KTOP.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-070301T0245Z/ FRANKLIN- 848 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR MUCH OF SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... AT 848 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM WHICH HAD PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAD EXITED THE WARNED AREA INTO MIAMI COUNTY...THUS THE WARNING FOR MUCH OF SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS WERE STILL POSSIBLE FROM THUNDERSTORM MOVING NORTHEAST INTO WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY.. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. STAY ALERT TO THE WEATHER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3852 9551 3839 9550 3839 9517 3867 9514 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 6:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Franklin, Osage | 38 min |
| Feb 28, 6:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey | 26 min |
| Feb 28, 6:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Anderson | 42 min |
| Feb 28, 7:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas | 28 min |
| Feb 28, 7:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Franklin, Osage | 39 min |
| Feb 28, 8:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Franklin | 37 min |
| Feb 28, 8:58 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Coffey, Franklin, Osage | 4 hr |
| Feb 28, 8:58 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Coffey, Franklin, Osage | 4 hr |
| Feb 28, 9:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 43 min |
| Feb 28, 9:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 48 min |
| Feb 28, 9:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 52 min |
| Feb 28, 10:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 50 min |
| Feb 28, 11:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 30 min |
| Mar 1, 10:32 AM CST | Wind Advisory | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ottawa, Republic, Washington | 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.