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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2016, 6:29 PM CDT for Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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
- May 25, 2016, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 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), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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, 6:30 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 Ese Minneapolis, KS | |
| May 25, 6:43 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Bennington, 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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.
252
WFUS53 KTOP 252329
TORTOP
KSC143-260000-
/O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0011.160525T2329Z-160526T0000Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
629 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN OTTAWA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 700 PM CDT
* AT 628 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF BENNINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND HAIL UP TO TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER.
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...
BENNINGTON AROUND 645 PM CDT.
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 3913 9767 3913 9746 3896 9749 3896 9753
3899 9772
TIME...MOT...LOC 2328Z 280DEG 13KT 3904 9767
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...2.00IN
$$
GDP1 follow-up statement
166
WWUS53 KTOP 252345
SVSTOP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
645 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2016
KSC143-260000-
/O.CON.KTOP.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-160526T0000Z/
OTTAWA-
645 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN OTTAWA COUNTY...
AT 643 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED OVER BENNINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN
OTTAWA COUNTY BETWEEN BENNINGTON AND NILES THROUGH 7 PM.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER
AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3912 9761 3913 9746 3896 9749 3896 9753
3899 9763
TIME...MOT...LOC 2343Z 280DEG 13KT 3903 9760
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...2.50IN
$$
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, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 25 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.