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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2007, 9:51 PM CDT for Geary County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 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
- Mar 30, 2007, 9:51 PM CDT (02:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2007, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Geary County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 312 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 786 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KTOP 310252 TORTOP KSC061-197-310315- /O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0009.070331T0251Z-070331T0315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 951 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME EASTERN GEARY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... WEST CENTRAL WABAUNSEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 948 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR VOLLAND... OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTH OF MANHATTAN...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... VOLLAND... 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 3887 9649 3889 9635 3903 9638 3905 9661 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KTOP 310302 SVSTOP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1001 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007 KSC061-197-310315- /O.CON.KTOP.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-070331T0315Z/ GEARY-WABAUNSEE- 1001 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR EXTREME WEST CENTRAL WABAUNSEE AND EXTREME EASTERN GEARY COUNTIES... AT 958 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF VOLLAND...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MANHATTAN...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF WEST CENTRAL WABAUNSEE AND EXTREME EASTERN GEARY COUNTIES. IF A TORNADO APPROACHES...GO TO A BASEMENT OR SEEK SHELTER IN A HALLWAY OR CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR HEAD AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3895 9649 3895 9641 3904 9641 3904 9656 $$
000 WWUS53 KTOP 310312 SVSTOP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1012 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007 KSC061-197-310322- /O.EXP.KTOP.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-070331T0315Z/ GEARY-WABAUNSEE- 1012 PM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EXTREME WEST CENTRAL WABAUNSEE AND EXTREME EASTERN GEARY COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 1015 PM CDT... AT 1012 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. 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 3895 9649 3895 9641 3904 9641 3904 9656 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Morris, Wabaunsee | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 10:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Osage | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 10:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 32 min |
| Mar 30, 11:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 11:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 4 hr |
| Mar 31, 12:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Washington | 4 hr |
| Mar 31, 12:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 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.