Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2015
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 2015, 5:29 PM CDT for Johnson County, Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2015, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2015, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
Counties Johnson County, KS, Miami County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 625 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1151 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
666
WFUS53 KEAX 062229
TOREAX
KSC091-121-062300-
/O.NEW.KEAX.TO.W.0029.150706T2229Z-150706T2300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
529 PM CDT MON JUL 6 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN JOHNSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
NORTHERN MIAMI COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 600 PM CDT
* AT 529 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER EDGERTON...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
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...
SPRING HILL AROUND 540 PM CDT.
OVERLAND PARK AND LOUISBURG AROUND 550 PM CDT.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 35 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 199 AND 206.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3870 9506 3884 9506 3884 9461 3862 9461
3862 9506 3869 9507
TIME...MOT...LOC 2229Z 270DEG 37KT 3873 9498
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$1 follow-up statement
013
WWUS53 KEAX 062242
SVSEAX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
542 PM CDT MON JUL 6 2015
KSC091-121-062300-
/O.CON.KEAX.TO.W.0029.000000T0000Z-150706T2300Z/
JOHNSON-MIAMI-
542 PM CDT MON JUL 6 2015
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN JOHNSON AND NORTHERN MIAMI COUNTIES...
AT 542 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED OVER SPRING HILL...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
OVERLAND PARK AND LOUISBURG AROUND 550 PM CDT.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 35 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 205 AND 206.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3884 9492 3884 9461 3862 9461 3862 9506
TIME...MOT...LOC 2242Z 270DEG 37KT 3873 9480
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
BLAIRThe office that day
Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 3:44 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte | 60 hr |
| Jul 6, 9:40 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Atchison, Leavenworth | 71 hr |
| Jul 6, 9:40 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 3 days |
| Jul 6, 10:21 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Miami | 4 days |
| Jul 6, 10:21 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | EAX | Linn | 5 days |
| Jul 6, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 57 min |
| Jul 6, 4:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Wyandotte | 39 min |
| Jul 6, 4:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 30 min |
| Jul 6, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson | 24 min |
| Jul 6, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami, Wyandotte | 46 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.