Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 30, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2008, 7:28 PM CDT for Osage County, Kansas. It was in force for 20 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
- Jun 12, 2008, 7:28 PM CDT (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2008, 7:48 PM CDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Osage County, KS
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 258 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
- 759 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1452 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KTOP 130028
TORTOP
KSC139-130115-
/O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0030.080613T0028Z-080613T0115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
728 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 815 PM CDT
* AT 726 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR OSAGE
CITY...OR 27 MILES NORTHEAST OF EMPORIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 36
MPH. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO THREAT HAIL TO GOLF BALL SIZE IS
LIKELY IN SCRANTON AND NORTH CENTRAL OSAGE COUNTY.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SCRANTON BY 735 PM CDT......
POMONA STATE PARK BY 740 PM CDT......
POMONA LAKE BY 745 PM CDT......
4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OVERBROOK BY 750 PM CDT......
STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST
SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3869 9550 3869 9551 3865 9551 3857 9584
3870 9592 3886 9578 3886 9550
TIME...MOT...LOC 0028Z 245DEG 31KT 3864 9576
$$
HUDSON2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KTOP 130037
SVSTOP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
737 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008
KSC139-130115-
/O.CON.KTOP.TO.W.0030.000000T0000Z-080613T0115Z/
OSAGE-
737 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN OSAGE COUNTY...
AT 736 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES WEST OF POMONA STATE PARK...OR 22 MILES
WEST OF OTTAWA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 36 MPH.
THE STORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
POMONA LAKE BY 745 PM CDT...
4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OVERBROOK BY 750 PM CDT...
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3869 9550 3869 9551 3865 9551 3861 9575
3886 9578 3886 9550
TIME...MOT...LOC 0037Z 245DEG 31KT 3867 9567
$$000
WWUS53 KTOP 130048 RRA
SVSTOP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
747 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008
KSC139-130057-
/O.CAN.KTOP.TO.W.0030.000000T0000Z-080613T0115Z/
OSAGE-
747 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN OSAGE COUNTY HAS BEEN
CANCELLED...
RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS WERE
STILL POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORM. HOWEVER...THE TORNADO THREAT
HAS ENDED FOR THIS STORM AND IT REMAINS INTENSE BUT BELOW SEVERE
STRENGTH. IT WILL BE WATCHED CLOSELY THOUGH FOR SIGNS OF
STRENGTHENING.
EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN WILL LIKELY LEAD TO STANDING WATER AND RISES ON
SMALL STREAMS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO
OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3869 9550 3869 9551 3865 9551 3861 9575
3886 9578 3886 9550
TIME...MOT...LOC 0047Z 245DEG 31KT 3870 9557
$$
HUDSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee | 39 min |
| Jun 12, 7:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Osage | 4 hr |
| Jun 12, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 43 min |
| Jun 12, 8:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas | 4 hr |
| Jun 12, 9:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Lyon | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey | 27 min |
| Jun 12, 9:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Osage | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:01 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Franklin, Osage | 13 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.