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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Topeka, KS

June 10, 1986Anderson County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1986, 6:40 PM CDT for Anderson County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 1986, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1986, 7:05 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Anderson County, KS

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 92 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1986-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1986-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1241 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTOP 102340
SVRTOP
KSC045-059-003-110005-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
640 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 705 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST AND/OR EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...

EASTERN DOUGLAS EASTERN FRANKLIN AND ANDERSON

AROUND 630 PM CDT A WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH WERE REPORTED BY THE DOUGLAS
COUNTY SHERIFF NEAR BALDWIN CITY. ALSO RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE LINE
OF STORMS FROM NEAR BALDWIN CITY TO NEAR OTTAWA AND JUST WEST OF
GARNETT.

THIS WARNING IS FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. FIND ADEQUATE SHELTER
NOW.  A TORNADOm WATCH IS IN EFFECT SO BE PREPARED IN CASE A TORNADO
DEVELOPS.
KAYS

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 4:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
355 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1986

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF EASTERN
KANSAS UNTIL 900PM EAST OF A LINE FROM WELLINGTON TO MARION TO
MARYSVILLE AND WEST OF A LINE ALONG THE KANSS MISSOURI BORDER TO
FORT SCOTT TO OSWEGO.

SOME NEW STORM DEVELOPMENT HAS OCCURRED IN NORTHEST KANSAS AND AT
350 PM A LINE OF MODERATE TO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED ALONG A
LINE FROM ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEAVENWORTH TO OSKALOOSA TO
LAWRENCE.  THIS LINE IS MOVING EAST ABOUT 30 MILES PER HOUR WHILE
STORMS MOVE NORTHEAST BETWEEN 35 AND 40 MILES PER HOUR.  MOST STORMS
ALONG THIS LINE ARE PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS ALTHOUGH THE STORM
ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEAVENWORTH IS LIKELY PRODUCING STRONG
GUSTY WINDS AND SOME HAIL.

THE ONLY OTHER STORM IN NORTHEAST KANSS WAS ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST
OF HOLTON AND HAS SHOWN SOME DECREASE IN INTENSITY THE SINCE 330 PM.
THIS STORM IS PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND
MOVING NORTHEAST TOWARD HIAWATHA.

OTHER STORMS ARE OCCURRING IN SOUTHCENTRAL KANSAS FROM NEAR MARION
SOUTHWARD TO WINFIELD.

SHIDELER
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 4:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
434 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1986

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF EASTERN
KANSAS UNTIL 900PM EAST OF A LINE FROM WELLINGTON TO MARION TO
MARYSVILLE AND WEST OF A LINE ALONG THE KANSAS MISSOURI BORDER TO
FORT SCOTT TO OSWEGO.

MOST STORMS HAD MOVED OUT OF NORTHEAST KANSAS BY 430 PM THIS AFTERNOON
WITH LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS OCCURRING ONLY IN BROWN COUNTY ABOUT
5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HIAWATHA. STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS FAR TO THE
SOUTHWEST OF TOPEKA ARE IN A 10 TO 20 MILE LINE FROM COUNCIL GROVE
SOUTHWARD TO ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF WINFIELD.

IN EASTCENTRAL KANSAS THE STORM LOCATED IN THE COUNCIL GROVE VICINITY
IS OF MODERATE TO STRONG INTENSITY AND LIKELY PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS...
STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.  THIS STORM IS MOVING
NORTHEST ABOUT 30 MILES PER HOUR.  SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
MOVING INTO SOUTHERN WABAUNSEE COUNTY AND ACROSS LYON COUNTY THROUGH
THE EMPORIA AND ESKRIDGE VICINITIES BY 530 PM CDT.

SHIDELER
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
505 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1986

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF EASTERN
KANSAS UNTIL 900PM EAST OF A LINE FROM WELLINGTON TO MARION TO
MARYSVILLE AND WEST OF A LINE ALONG THE KANSAS MISSOURI BORDER TO
FORT SCOTT TO OSWEGO.

AT 505PM CDT A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHWEST WAUBAUN
SEE COUNTY ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF ALMA. IT WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH
ABOUTH 35 MILES AND HOUR AN WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN GUSTY WINDS
AND SMALL HAIL AS IT TRACKS ACROSS CENTRAL WAUBAUNSEE COUNTY. THIS
THUNDERSTORM WAS PART OF A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 20 MILES WIDE
THAT EXTENDED FROM ALMA TO EMPORIA TO EUREKA AND SOUTH INTO OKLAHOMA.
THE LINE WAS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST WHILE STORMS IN THE LINE WERE
MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST ABOUT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS
THROUGHOUT THE EVENING=.
SCHULTZ
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
515 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1986

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF EASTERN
KANSAS UNTIL 900PM EAST OF A LINE FROM WELLINGTON TO MARION TO
MARYSVILLE AND WEST OF A LINE ALONG THE KANSAS MISSOURI BORDER TO
FORT SCOTT TO OSWEGO.

AT 515PM CDT A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM AROUND ST.
MARYS TO THE NORTHEAST OF EMPORIA. AROUND 510 PM CDT SOME FUNNEL CLOUDS
WERE REPORTED IN THE ALTA VISTA AREA..AND AROUND 515 PM CDT SPOTTERS
REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL VERY HEAVY RAINS GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 50 MPH
IN THE ESKRIDGE AREA. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE PASSING
THROUGH THE TOPEKA AREAA BETWEEN 530 AND 600 PM CDT. NO SEVERE WEATHER
HAS BEEN REPORTED BUT RESIDENTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS SHOULD REMAIN
ALERT FOR SUDDEN SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS
THROUGHOUT THE EVENING.
KAYS
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
530 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1986

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF EASTERN
KANSAS UNTIL 900PM EAST OF A LINE FROM WELLINGTON TO MARION TO
MARYSVILLE AND WEST OF A LINE ALONG THE KANSAS MISSOURI BORDER TO
FORT SCOTT TO OSWEGO.

AT 525PM CDT A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM AROUND ST.
MARYS THORUGH THE MELVERN RESERVOIR AREA AND JOHN REDMOND RESERVOIR
AREA THEN SOUTH INTO SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS
WERE LOCATED IN SOUTHWEST SHAWNEE COUNTY..AND ALSO OVER WABAUNSEE COUNTY
NEAR ALMA. ADDITIONAL INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER JOHN REDMOND
RESERVOIR. ALL THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 45 MPH.
CURRENT MOVEMENT WOULD PLACE THE LEADING EDGE ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR
HORTON IN SOUTHERN BROWN COUNTY THROUGH CENTRAL DOUGLAS COUNTY AND
WESTERN ANDERSON COUNTY BY 630 PM CDT.
VERY HEAVY RAINS GUSTY WINDS OVER 50 *MPH SOME HAIL AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS. BOATERS ON
CLINTON LAKE IN DOUGLAS COUNTY SHOULD BEGIN TO SEEK SAFETY AS THIS
LINE OF STORMS BEGINS TO EFFECT DOUGLAS COUNTY AFTER 6PM CDT.
KAYS
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:57 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
555 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1986

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF EASTERN
KANSAS UNTIL 900PM EAST OF A LINE FROM WELLINGTON TO MARION TO
MARYSVILLE AND WEST OF A LINE ALONG THE KANSAS MISSOURI BORDER TO
FORT SCOTT TO OSWEGO.

AT 550PM CDT INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN SOUTHEAST
OSAGE COUNTY AND JUST WEST OF TOPEKA IN WESTERN SHAWNEE COUNTY.

VERY HEAVY RAINS SOUTH OF SILVER LAKE ON INTERSTATE 70 HAVE
GIVEN LOCALIZED FLOODING ON THE INTERSTATE. ALSO AROUND 548 PM CDT
THE OSAGE AND COFFEY COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE BOTH REPORTED VERY
HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING SINCE AROUND 530PM CDT.

CTHUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH NORTHEAST AROUND 45 MPH OVER
NORTHEAST KANSAS THIS EVENING.
KAYS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAtchison, Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee38 min
Jun 10, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Franklin25 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.