Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Topeka, KS

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
751 PM CDT MON MAY 12 1986

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 152 CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST
AND EASTCENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT.

AT 750PM...NO THUNDERSTORMS HAD YET FORMED OR MOVED INTO NORTHEAST OR
EASTCENTRAL KANSAS...HOWEVER VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO
MOVE SOUTHWARD ACROSS NORTHWEST MISSOURI AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA.
THESE STORMS COULD PUSH INTO NORTHEAST KANSAS LATER THIS EVENING AS
WEATHER CONDITIONS REMAIN GOOD FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT.

STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

AKULOW

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
818 PM CDT MON MAY 12 1986

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 152 CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST
AND EASTCENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT.

NO THUNDERSTORMS HAD YET DEVELOPED OR MOVED INTO NORTHEAST OR EAST
CENTRAL KANSAS AT 815PM.  A LARGE AND POTENT MASS OF STORMS REACHED
ACROSS THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF MISSOURI TO SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA NEAR
FALLS CITY.

THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD
CROSS DONIPHAN AND THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF BROWN COUNTIES BETWEEN
830 AND 915 THIS EVENING.  RESIDENTS IN THESE TWO EXTREME NORTHEAST
KANSAS COUNTIES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY
DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL.

SCHURR

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
840 PM CDT MON MAY 12 1986

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CLAY AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES
OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND DICKINSON..MCPHERSON AND SALINE COUNTIES OF
CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT...

AT 840 PM CDT THERE WERE NO THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTH CENTRAL OR CENTRAL
KANSAS.

THERE WAS A MASSIVE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EXTREME NORTHWEST MISSOURI
NORTH OF ST. JOSEPH AND WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

PHILLIPS 0141

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
910 PM CDT MON MAY 12 1986

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES FOR BROWN COUNTY UNTIL 930PM
CDT...WHILE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF
NORTHEAST AND EASTCENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT.

AT 9PM VERY INTENSE TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS BROWN
COUNTY OF EXTREME NORTHEAST KANSAS. THIS STORM WAS PART OF A LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS THAT REACHED FROM NEAR LAMONI IOWA TO JUST SOUTHWEST OF
HIAWATHA. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

3/4 TO ONE INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED 5 MILES NORTH OF HIAWATHA KS SHORTLY
AFTER 9PM CDT.

RESIDENTS OF BROWN COUNTY AND NEARBY DONIPHAN COUNTY KANSAS SHOULD
BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

AKULOW

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
930 PM CDT MON MAY 12 1986

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BROWN COUNTY EXPIRED AT 930PM CDT
AND WILL NOT BE REISSUED. IN ADDITION A PORTION OF THE SEVERE THUNDER/
STORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHCENTRAL KANSAS.

AT 925PM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BROWN COUNTY HAD MOVED SOUTHEAST
INTO DONIPHAN COUNTY KS WHERE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN
POSTED UNTIL 10 PM CDT. THIS STORM WAS PART OF A LINE OF VERY INTENSE
THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM SOUTHCENTRAL IOWA TO EXTREME NORTHEAST
KANSAS. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. THE LINE SHOULD
MOVE INTO ATCHISON COUNTY KANSAS AROUND 10PM.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THAT PART OF
CENTRAL AND SOUTHCENTRAL KANSAS WEST OF A LINE FROM MARYSVILLE TO
MANHATTAN TO EMPORIA TO BURLINGTON. ALTHOUGH THUNDERSTORMS MAY STIL
OCCUR OVER PARTS OF SOUTHCENTRAL AND CENTRAL KANSAS THEY ARE NOT NOW
EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE.

STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR LATER
INFORMATION.

AKULOW

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1014 PM CDT MON MAY 12 1986

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ATCHISON COUNTY
KANSAS UNTIL 1030PM CDT...AND FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY AND SOUTHEAST
JACKSON COUNTY UNTIL 11PM CDT.

A LINE OF VERY INTENSE TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS REACHED FROM JUST
NORTH OF ST JOSEPH MO TO HOLTON KS AT 10PM CDT AND WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 25 TO 30 MPH. HAIL OF ONE INCH OR GREATER...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...
GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH AND HEAVY RAINS HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED
WITH THIS LINE OF STORMS.

IN ADDTION...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 152 HAS BEEN REPLACED
BY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 154. WATCH NUMBER 154 WILL BE
IN EFFECT UNTIL 3AM CDT  APPLIES TO THAT PART OF EASTERN KANSAS EAST
OF A HIAWATHA TO TOPEKA TO BURLINGTON TO FT SCOTT LINE.

ALL RESIDENTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS...ESPECIALLY IN THE TOPEKA...LAWRENCE
AND KANSAS CITY AREAS...SHOULD BE ALERT TO THREATENING WEATHER AND
TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS.

STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR LATER
INFORMATION.

AKULOW