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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Topeka, KS

June 3, 2014Brown County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2014, 11:28 PM CDT for Brown County, Kansas. It was in force for 18 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 3, 2014, 11:28 PM CDT (04:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2014, 11:46 PM CDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.75 in

County Brown County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:30 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 3, 11:30 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 N Everest, KS	ROOF OF A HOUSE AND TWO GRAIN BINS DAMAGED. POSSIBLE TORNADO. TIME APPROXIMATED BASED ON RADAR.
Jun 3, 11:42 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 68	4 Ese Everest, 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 3, 9:20 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 85 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1643 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1425 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 321 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 10.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

627 
WFUS53 KTOP 040428
TORTOP
KSC013-040500-
/O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0006.140604T0428Z-140604T0500Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1128 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN BROWN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS...

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT

* AT 1125 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR WILLIS...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL.

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
           TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
           LIKELY.

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  EVEREST AROUND 1135 PM CDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3980 9533 3965 9534 3965 9545 3969 9556
      3985 9544
TIME...MOT...LOC 0429Z 302DEG 26KT 3972 9544

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.75IN

$$

HENNECKE

1 follow-up statement

431 
WWUS53 KTOP 040446
SVSTOP

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1146 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2014

KSC013-040456-
/O.CAN.KTOP.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-140604T0500Z/
BROWN-
1146 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2014

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN BROWN COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.

ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE...AND A TORNADO 
WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM. 

LAT...LON 3980 9533 3965 9534 3965 9545 3969 9556
      3985 9544
TIME...MOT...LOC 0446Z 302DEG 26KT 3965 9531

$$

HENNECKE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha	50 min
Jun 3, 10:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Brown, Marshall, Nemaha	27 min
Jun 3, 10:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Brown, Nemaha	47 min
Jun 3, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Nemaha	47 min
Jun 4, 12:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha, Washington	45 min
Jun 4, 1:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Jackson, Nemaha	36 min
Jun 4, 3:52 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TOP	Brown	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.