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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Topeka, KS

February 28, 2007Franklin County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Feb 28, 2007, 8:23 PM CST for Franklin County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 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: Feb 28, 2007, 8:23 PM CST (02:23 UTC)
Expired: Feb 28, 2007, 9:00 PM CST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Franklin County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:22 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.

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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 67 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KTOP 010227
TORTOP
KSC059-010300-
/O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0005.070301T0223Z-070301T0300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
823 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 900 PM CST

* AT 823 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF RANTOUL...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF OTTAWA...MOVING
  EAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LANE...
  RANTOUL...

ANOTHER TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES FOR AREAS FARTHER WEST IN SOUTHERN 
FRANKLIN COUNTY AS WELL.

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 3866 9514 3839 9517 3840 9507 3869 9506

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KTOP 010253
SVSTOP

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
852 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007

KSC059-010302-
/O.EXP.KTOP.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-070301T0300Z/
FRANKLIN-
852 PM CST WED FEB 28 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 
900 PM CST...

AT 852 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE 
STORM WHICH HAD PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN FRANKLIN 
COUNTY HAD EXITED INTO MIAMI COUNTY...THUS THE WARNING WILL BE 
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 9 PM.

RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS WERE 
STILL POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WESTERN PARTS OF 
FRANKLIN 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 3866 9514 3839 9517 3840 9507 3869 9506

$$

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, 8:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	TOP	Franklin	45 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

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.