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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 2015, 5:15 PM CDT for Douglas County, Kansas. It was in force for 15 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, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2015, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Douglas County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 48 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.
359
WFUS53 KTOP 062215
TORTOP
KSC045-062230-
/O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0028.150706T2215Z-150706T2230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
515 PM CDT MON JUL 6 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 530 PM CDT
* AT 515 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER EUDORA...MOVING EAST AT 30 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 TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
NORTHEASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY.
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 3893 9511 3896 9511 3896 9508 3898 9508
3899 9507 3899 9506 3892 9506
TIME...MOT...LOC 2215Z 270DEG 26KT 3895 9508
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
SANDERS1 follow-up statement
445
WWUS53 KTOP 062226
SVSTOP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
526 PM CDT MON JUL 6 2015
KSC045-062236-
/O.EXP.KTOP.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-150706T2230Z/
DOUGLAS-
526 PM CDT MON JUL 6 2015
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
530 PM CDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN
IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR
EAST CENTRAL KANSAS.
LAT...LON 3893 9511 3896 9511 3896 9508 3898 9508
3899 9507 3899 9506 3892 9506
TIME...MOT...LOC 2223Z 270DEG 26KT 3895 9508
$$
SANDERSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 3:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Lyon, Osage | 48 hr |
| Jul 6, 12:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Marshall | 27 min |
| Jul 6, 1:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Marshall | 51 min |
| Jul 6, 1:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Nemaha | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 2:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Dickinson | 47 min |
| Jul 6, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Riley | 51 min |
| Jul 6, 3:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Jefferson | 29 min |
| Jul 6, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Wabaunsee | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Morris | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 3:17 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Jackson, Shawnee | 118 min |
| Jul 6, 3:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Jackson, Shawnee | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Wabaunsee | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 3:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Geary, Jackson, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley, Shawnee and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 50 min |
| Jul 6, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 50 min |
| Jul 6, 4:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin, Osage, Shawnee | 48 min |
| Jul 6, 4:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Shawnee | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 4:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Douglas | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 4:56 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 6:17 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Jackson, Shawnee | 21 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.