Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2010
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2010, 11:23 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Shawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 22 min. 4 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 13, 2010, 11:23 PM CDT (04:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2010, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Jefferson County, KS, Shawnee County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 13, 11:25 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 4 Wsw Topeka, KS | A LARGE SYCAMORE TREE APPROXIMATELY 60 INCHES IN DIAMETER WAS SNAPPED. CENTER PART OF TREE WAS ROTTED OUT. OTHER SMALLER DIAMETER TREES APPROXIMATELY 12 TO 24 INCHES IN DIAMETER WERE ALSO SNAPPED. TIME WAS ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. |
| Jun 13, 11:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 S Topeka, KS | A LARGE OAK TREE WAS UPROOTED NEAR 21ST AVE AND KANSAS AVE. TIME WAS ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. |
| Jun 13, 11:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 83 | 1 S Topeka, KS | STORM CHASER MEASURED 83 MPH WIND GUST |
| Jun 13, 11:36 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | Topeka, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 8 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
- 1787 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 984 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 6.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
068
WFUS53 KTOP 140423
TORTOP
KSC087-177-140445-
/O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0013.100614T0423Z-100614T0445Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1123 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2010
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL SHAWNEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...
* UNTIL 1145 PM CDT
* AT 1120 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS SEVERE
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CENTRAL TOPEKA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NORTHEASTERN TOPEKA...
TECUMSEH...
GRANTVILLE...
THIS INCLUDES THE KANSAS TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 179 AND 188.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE LATEST
SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
&&
LAT...LON 3905 9549 3902 9550 3898 9577 3904 9580
3922 9548
TIME...MOT...LOC 0423Z 248DEG 30KT 3904 9569
$$
BARJENBRUCH2 follow-up statements
416
WWUS53 KTOP 140431
SVSTOP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1131 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2010
KSC087-177-140445-
/O.CON.KTOP.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-100614T0445Z/
JEFFERSON-SHAWNEE-
1131 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2010
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1145 PM CDT FOR EAST
CENTRAL SHAWNEE AND SOUTHWESTERN JEFFERSON COUNTIES...
AT 1129 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO. THIS AREA OF STRONG ROTATION WAS LOCATED NEAR EAST CENTRAL
TOPEKA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TECUMSEH AND GRANTVILLE.
THIS INCLUDES THE KANSAS TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 180 AND 188.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO MAKING IT NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE
TO SEE. TAKE COVER NOW! IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY
BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
&&
LAT...LON 3905 9549 3902 9550 3900 9565 3907 9569
3920 9549 3920 9548
TIME...MOT...LOC 0431Z 251DEG 30KT 3906 9562
$$
BARJENBRUCH947
WWUS53 KTOP 140442
SVSTOP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1142 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2010
KSC087-177-140452-
/O.EXP.KTOP.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-100614T0445Z/
JEFFERSON-SHAWNEE-
1142 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2010
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL SHAWNEE AND SOUTHWESTERN
JEFFERSON COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 1145 PM CDT...
THIS INCLUDES THE KANSAS TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 180 AND 188.
AT 1142 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
ROTATION HAD WEAKENED AND NO LONGER APPEARED CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
TORNADOES...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. DAMAGING
WINDS TO 70 MPH WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE OVER THE AREA...AND A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3905 9549 3902 9550 3900 9565 3907 9569
3920 9549 3920 9548
TIME...MOT...LOC 0442Z 251DEG 30KT 3909 9551
$$
BARJENBRUCHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Morris, Ottawa | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Lyon, Morris, Riley and 1 more | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 10:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Ottawa, Riley and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Lyon, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 10:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Geary, Jackson and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson and 5 more | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 11:09 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Lyon | 4 days |
| Jun 13, 11:09 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Lyon | 34 hr |
| Jun 13, 11:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jefferson, Shawnee | 19 min |
| Jun 13, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson and 2 more | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 2:09 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Morris | 9 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:34 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Lyon | 9 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:41 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon | 5 days |
| Jun 14, 3:41 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Franklin | 17 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:41 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Franklin, Osage | 35 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:41 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 7 hr |
| Jun 14, 4:23 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 16 hr |
| Jun 14, 4:23 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Geary | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:13 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Anderson, Franklin | 17 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.