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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2009, 9:57 PM CDT for Brown County, Nemaha County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. 2 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
- Jun 7, 2009, 9:57 PM CDT (02:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2009, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Brown County, KS, Nemaha County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:01 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 9:59 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 Ssw Sabetha, KS | |
| Jun 7, 10:30 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 2 Nw Hiawatha, KS | REPORTED VIA RADIO NETWORK |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 3425 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KTOP 080257 TORTOP KSC013-131-080345- /O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0008.090608T0257Z-090608T0345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 957 PM CDT SUN JUN 7 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN BROWN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS... EAST CENTRAL NEMAHA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS... * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 955 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTH OF WOODLAWN...OR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HIAWATHA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WOODLAWN... KICKAPOO RESERVATION... SABETHA... FAIRVIEW... POWHATTAN... MORRILL... HAMLIN... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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 3976 9543 3964 9586 3980 9599 4000 9570 TIME...MOT...LOC 0257Z 233DEG 22KT 3974 9587 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KTOP 080317 SVSTOP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1017 PM CDT SUN JUN 7 2009 KSC131-080326- /O.CAN.KTOP.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-090608T0345Z/ NEMAHA- 1017 PM CDT SUN JUN 7 2009 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL NEMAHA COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE STORM MOVED EAST OUT OF THE COUNTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN NEMAHA COUNTY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3979 9547 3974 9578 3990 9579 4000 9570 TIME...MOT...LOC 0316Z 235DEG 30KT 3984 9568 $$ KSC013-080345- /O.CON.KTOP.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-090608T0345Z/ BROWN- 1017 PM CDT SUN JUN 7 2009 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR NORTHWESTERN BROWN COUNTY... AT 1016 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FAIRVIEW...OR 8 MILES WEST OF HIAWATHA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MORRILL...HIAWATHA AND HAMLIN. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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 3979 9547 3974 9578 3990 9579 4000 9570 TIME...MOT...LOC 0316Z 235DEG 30KT 3984 9568 $$
000 WWUS53 KTOP 080340 SVSTOP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1040 PM CDT SUN JUN 7 2009 KSC013-080348- /O.EXP.KTOP.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-090608T0345Z/ BROWN- 1040 PM CDT SUN JUN 7 2009 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN BROWN COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 1045 PM CDT... AT 1038 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM WHICH HAD PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN BROWN COUNTY HAD EXITED THE WARNED AREA...AND HAD NOW MOVED INTO A TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEAST BROWN COUNTY. THUS THE WARNING FOR WESTERN BROWN COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3979 9547 3974 9578 3990 9579 4000 9570 TIME...MOT...LOC 0338Z 235DEG 30KT 3995 9548 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris | 42 min |
| Jun 7, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon | 39 min |
| Jun 7, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Riley, Wabaunsee | 22 min |
| Jun 7, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 50 min |
| Jun 7, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie | 46 min |
| Jun 7, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 21 min |
| Jun 7, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Marshall, Nemaha | 55 min |
| Jun 7, 10:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown | 23 min |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.