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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 19, 2011, 8:48 PM CDT for Clay County, Cloud County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 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 19, 2011, 8:48 PM CDT (01:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2011, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:51 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 19, 8:51 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 4 N Miltonvale, KS | BRIEF FUNNEL |
| May 19, 9:10 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 4 Wsw Clyde, KS | |
| May 19, 9:12 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Clyde, 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 19, 1:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 19, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -338 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 547 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 355 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
710
WFUS53 KTOP 200148
TORTOP
KSC027-029-200215-
/O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0008.110520T0148Z-110520T0215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
848 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN CLAY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
EASTERN CLOUD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 915 PM CDT
* AT 833 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A BRIEF TORNADO.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM STILL APPEARS TO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO. AT 842 PM CDT...THE STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF AURORA...OR 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CLYDE...
MORGANVILLE...
VINING...
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. 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 3963 9742 3960 9737 3957 9736 3957 9730
3948 9713 3933 9740 3945 9759
TIME...MOT...LOC 0147Z 226DEG 26KT 3942 9745
HAIL 2.00IN
$$1 follow-up statement
864
WWUS53 KTOP 200213
SVSTOP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
913 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2011
KSC027-029-200223-
/O.EXP.KTOP.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-110520T0215Z/
CLAY-CLOUD-
913 PM CDT THU MAY 19 2011
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL CLOUD AND NORTHWESTERN CLAY
COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 915 PM CDT...
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEAST CLOUD AND FAR NORTHWEST
CLAY COUNTIES REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM CDT.
AT 913 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH THE POSSIBLE TORNADO HAD WEAKENED AND NO
LONGER APPEARED CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES...THUS THE WARNING
HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. STAY ALERT TO THE WEATHER.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
&&
LAT...LON 3963 9742 3960 9737 3957 9736 3957 9730
3948 9713 3933 9740 3945 9759
TIME...MOT...LOC 0213Z 226DEG 26KT 3955 9727
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 7:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Republic | 25 min |
| May 19, 7:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Cloud | 32 min |
| May 19, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 16 min |
| May 19, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 36 min |
| May 19, 7:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Cloud | 3 hr |
| May 19, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 50 min |
| May 19, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Republic, Washington | 51 min |
| May 19, 10:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Washington | 15 min |
| May 20, 12:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Cloud | 39 min |
| May 20, 12:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 43 min |
| May 20, 12:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 7 hr |
| May 20, 1:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Washington | 39 min |
| May 20, 2:16 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 5 days |
| May 20, 7:45 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 5 hr |
| May 20, 7:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Republic, Washington | 114 min |
| May 20, 9:10 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Anderson | 3 hr |
| May 20, 9:27 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Ottawa, Saline | 65 hr |
| May 20, 9:31 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Ottawa, Saline | 68 hr |
| May 20, 9:43 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Clay | 58 hr |
| May 20, 9:48 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Republic, Washington | 3 hr |
| May 20, 12:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa, Republic, Washington | 3 hr |
| May 20, 2:18 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall | 68 hr |
| May 20, 6:43 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Republic | 2 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.