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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2016, 6:05 PM CDT for Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 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
- May 25, 2016, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2016, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 2.0 in
County Ottawa County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 6:08 PM CDT | TORNADO | 3 S Minneapolis, KS | ON THE GROUND FOR APPROX 1 MINUTE |
| May 25, 6:09 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Minneapolis, KS | |
| May 25, 6:09 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Sse Minneapolis, KS | |
| May 25, 6:30 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 Ese Minneapolis, 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 25, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1802 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
907
WFUS53 KTOP 252305
TORTOP
KSC143-252330-
/O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0010.160525T2305Z-160525T2330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
605 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL OTTAWA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 630 PM CDT
* AT 605 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR MINNEAPOLIS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND HAIL UP TO TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER.
SOURCE...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD SOUTHWEST OF
MINNEAPOLIS AT 605 PM.
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...
MINNEAPOLIS AROUND 610 PM CDT.
BENNINGTON AND WELLS AROUND 630 PM CDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED
FOR THE SAME AREA.
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 3903 9781 3911 9781 3915 9778 3919 9755
3901 9755
TIME...MOT...LOC 2305Z 271DEG 18KT 3908 9774
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...2.00IN
$$
GDPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa, Republic | 49 min |
| May 24, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary | 37 min |
| May 24, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ottawa, Republic, Washington | 48 min |
| May 24, 10:38 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 3 hr |
| May 24, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley and 1 more | 50 min |
| May 24, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Riley, Washington | 41 min |
| May 24, 11:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Republic, Washington | 3 hr |
| May 24, 11:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 35 min |
| May 25, 12:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Lyon, Osage, Shawnee | 28 min |
| May 25, 12:19 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 8 days |
| May 25, 12:19 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Ottawa, Saline | 6 days |
| May 25, 12:29 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Cloud | 51 hr |
| May 25, 12:29 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Clay | 5 days |
| May 25, 10:34 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Ottawa, Saline | 3 days |
| May 25, 12:44 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall | 20 hr |
| May 25, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 58 min |
| May 25, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 31 min |
| May 25, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Ottawa | 50 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.