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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 21, 2019, 7:00 PM CDT for Marshall County, Nemaha County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 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
- May 21, 2019, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2019, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.0 in
Counties Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 808 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1090 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted.
933
WFUS53 KTOP 220000
TORTOP
KSC117-131-220030-
/O.NEW.KTOP.TO.W.0013.190522T0000Z-190522T0030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Tornado Warning
National Weather Service Topeka KS
700 PM CDT Tue May 21 2019
The National Weather Service in Topeka has issued a
* Tornado Warning for...
Northwestern Nemaha County in northeastern Kansas...
Northeastern Marshall County in northeastern Kansas...
* Until 730 PM CDT.
* At 700 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located near Axtell, moving northeast at 40 mph.
HAZARD...Tornado and quarter 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...
Axtell and Baileyville around 705 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.
Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to
flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
&&
LAT...LON 3979 9615 3985 9633 4000 9629 4000 9596
TIME...MOT...LOC 0000Z 203DEG 37KT 3982 9626
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 25 min |
| May 21, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson | 23 min |
| May 21, 7:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Brown | 14 min |
| May 21, 9:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Marshall, Ottawa, Pottawatomie and 2 more | 3 hr |
| May 22, 3:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TOP | Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 17 more | 5 days |
| May 22, 12:20 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TOP | Geary | 28 hr |
| May 22, 4:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Anderson | 26 min |
| May 22, 5:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Anderson | 26 min |
| May 22, 5:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TOP | Anderson | 36 min |
| May 22, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Franklin | 26 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.