Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2008, 9:07 PM CDT for Cloud County, Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 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
- May 29, 2008, 9:07 PM CDT (02:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2008, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cloud County, KS, Republic County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 9:34 PM CDT | TORNADO | 4 S Courtland, KS | REPORTED BY DOPPLER ON WHEELS |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 1160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1278 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KTOP 300207
TORTOP
KSC029-157-300245-
/O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0006.080530T0207Z-080530T0245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
907 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN CLOUD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTHWESTERN REPUBLIC COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 945 PM CDT
* AT 906 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
A TORNADO 11 MILES WEST OF JAMESTOWN...OR 22 MILES WEST OF
CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 37 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
JAMESTOWN...
NORWAY...
TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN NORTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY.
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.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING. AS A
LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER
YOUR HEAD.
STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST
SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3972 9793 3973 9793 3982 9766 3961 9757
3951 9793
TIME...MOT...LOC 0207Z 247DEG 32KT 3956 9806
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 26 min |
| May 29, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 29 min |
| May 29, 9:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic | 25 min |
| May 29, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic | 15 min |
| May 29, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 57 min |
| May 29, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 43 min |
| May 29, 11:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Republic | 4 hr |
| May 30, 12:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Cloud, Morris | 21 days |
| May 30, 9:19 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall | 47 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.