Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2008, 10:00 PM CDT for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 15 min. 3 reports 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, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2008, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Republic County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:00 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, 10:01 PM CDT | TORNADO | 6 N Belleville, KS | TORNADO STILL ON THE GROUND |
| May 29, 10:10 PM CDT | TORNADO | 9 N Belleville, KS | TORNADO STILL ON THE GROUND. 1/4 MILE WIDE. |
| May 29, 10:12 PM CDT | TORNADO | 5 Wnw Narka, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 3876 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 6.4
- Supercell composite
- 26.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KTOP 300259
TORTOP
KSC157-300315-
/O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0008.080530T0300Z-080530T0315Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1000 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL REPUBLIC COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
* AT 956 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
A TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF MUNDEN...OR 23 MILES NORTH OF
CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 44 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MUNDEN...
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.
FOR YOUR SAFETY...GO TO A STORM SHELTER OR BASEMENT NOW TORNADOES
MAY HAVE WINDS GREATER THAN 100 MPH. AVOID OVERPASSES AND WINDOWS...
AND COVER YOUR HEAD.
STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST
SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 4000 9748 3993 9747 3985 9768 3993 9778
4000 9773
TIME...MOT...LOC 0300Z 229DEG 39KT 3993 9765
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KTOP 300306
SVSTOP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1004 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008
KSC157-300315-
/O.CON.KTOP.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-080530T0315Z/
REPUBLIC-
1004 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR NORTH
CENTRAL REPUBLIC COUNTY...
AT 1001 PM CDT...STORM CHASERS REPORTED A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTH OF
BELLEVILLE...OR 24 MILES NORTH OF CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 43
MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTH CENTRAL REPUBLIC COUNTY NORTH AND
NORTHWEST OF MUNDEN...
SEEK SHELTER BELOW GROUND NOW
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 4000 9748 3995 9747 3988 9761 3996 9776
4000 9773
TIME...MOT...LOC 0304Z 230DEG 37KT 3994 9761
$$000
WWUS53 KTOP 300312
SVSTOP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1010 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008
KSC157-300315-
/O.CON.KTOP.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-080530T0315Z/
REPUBLIC-
1010 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR NORTH
CENTRAL REPUBLIC COUNTY...
AT 1008 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO AT U S
HIGHWAY 81 AND GRAND...TO THE NORTHWEST OF MUNDEN...OR 25 MILES
NORTH OF CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
RURAL AREAS OF EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL REPUBLIC COUNTY...TO THE NORTH
OF MUNDEN ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
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.
FOR YOUR SAFETY...GO TO A STORM SHELTER OR BASEMENT NOW TORNADOES
MAY HAVE WINDS GREATER THAN 100 MPH. AVOID OVERPASSES AND WINDOWS...
AND COVER YOUR HEAD.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 4000 9748 3999 9748 3998 9748 3995 9747
3990 9758 3994 9770 4000 9768
TIME...MOT...LOC 0310Z 224DEG 29KT 3997 9760
$$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, 9:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 38 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, 10:18 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.