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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 195, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 28, 1986, 2:25 AM CDT for Clay County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 28, 1986, 2:25 AM CDT (07:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 28, 1986, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay 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 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 2492 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Sep 27, 9:12 PM CDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1020 PM CDT SAT SEP 27 1986 AT 1020 PM CDT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM THE KANSAS CITY AREA SOUTHWEST THROUGH SOUTHERN OSAGE AND NORTHERN COFFEY INTO LYON AND SOUTHERN MORRIS COUNTY. THE MOST INTENSE STORMS WERE JUST SOUTHEAST OF LYNDON IN SOUTHEAST OSAGE COUNTY...ACROSS THE EMPORIA AREA AND OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST MORRIS COUNTY. NONE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS APPEARED CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SEVERE WEATHER. HOWEVER VERY HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS OVER 40 MPH WITH CONSIDERABLE DEADLY LIGHTNING WERE LIKELY. THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP TO THE NORTH OF WICHITA AND MOVE EASTNORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. THE ENTIRE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALSO SHOWING A GRADUAL NORTH MOVEMENT AROUND 10 MPH. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF EASTCENTRAL KANSAS TONIGHT. HEAVY RAINS FALLING ON NEARLY SATURATED SOILS MAY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. KAYS
Special weather statement, Sep 27, 11:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1105 PM CDT SAT SEP 27 1986 AT 1105 PM CDT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN AN AREA AROUND 40 MILES WIDE OVER EASTERN INTO CENTRAL KANSAS. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INTENSE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM EAST OF OSKALOOSA IN EASTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY TO NEAR MELVERN RESERVOIR ACROSS NORTHERN LYON COUNTY ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH OF EMPORIA CONTINUING ON SOUTHWEST TO THE NORTH OF WICHITA. THE MOST INTENSE STORMS WERE JUST NORTH OF OLATHE...ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OTTAWA...OVER THE NORTH/ WEST PART OF JOHN REDMOND RESERVOIR...AND SOUTHWEST OF EMPORIA NEAR COTTONWOOD FALLS. THE MOST INTENSE STORMS WERE LIKELY PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS OVER 40 MPH AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EASTNORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MPH WHILE THE ENTIRE AREA MOVED NORTHEAST AROUND 10 MPH. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE P(ART OF EASTCENTRAL KANSAS TONIGHT. HEAVY RAINS FALLING ON NEARLY SATURATED SOILS MAY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS AFTER MIDNIGHT. KAYS
Special weather statement, Sep 28, 12:19 AM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 11:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Coffey, Franklin, Lyon, Osage | 3 hr |
| Sep 28, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 56 min |
| Sep 28, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 54 min |
| Sep 28, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 63 min |
| Sep 28, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jewell, Mitchell | 60 min |
| Sep 28, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 60 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.