Tornado Warning 8, NWS Topeka, KS

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
225 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 1986

AT 225 PM CDT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE EAST OF A LINE FROM FREIND
NEBRASKA TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA KANSAS TO NEAR JUNCTION CITY
TO ELDORADO KANSAS. THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM 20 MILES
NORTHEAST OF BELLEVILLE KANSAS TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BELOIT KANSAS.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN
HOUR.
SOME	 HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE AS THE THUNDERSTORMS PASS
THROUGH THE AREA.

STAPLETON
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
309 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 1986

THE CONCORDIA POLICE DEPT RPORTED A PUBLIC REPORT OF A FUNNEL CLOUD
5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CONCORDIA AT AROUND 3PM CDT THE FUNNEL CLOUD
LIFTED BACK INTO THE CLOUD AND IS NO LONGER VISIBLE.

AT 310 PM CDT RADAR INDICATES INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN CLOUD
MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN THE CLYDE/CLIFTON
AREA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR POPSSIBLE REDEVELOPMENT AND TAKE
NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS SHOULD THIS STORM REAPPEAR.
PETERSEN

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
415 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 1986

AT 415 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED SSOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF A LINE
FROM OMAHA NEBRASKA TO 10 MILES EAST OF CONCORDIA KANSAS TO ABILENE
TO 30 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM CLAY CENTER KANSAS TO ABILENE TO
10 MILES EAST OF MANHATTAN KANSAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE
EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

HEAVY RAIN AND SOME LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE THUNDERSTORMS
AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA.
STAPLETON

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
435 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 1986

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED SCATTERED OVER NORTHEAST AND
EASTCENTRAL KANSAS. A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED
FROM NEAR HORTON IN SOUTHERN BROWN COUNTY TO NEAR PERRY RESERVOIR AND
CLINTON RESERVOIR TO NEAR GARNETT IN ANDERSON COUNTY. ANOTHER
DEVELOPING AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME VERY HEAVY..STRETCHED FROM
NEAR SALINA TO NEAR SENECA IN NEMAHA COUNTY. THE FIRST AREA OF RAIN
WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 35 MPH WHILE THE SECOND AREA OF
RAIN WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 25 MPH.

ANY OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS FROM NOW UNTIL
SUNSET WILL GIVE VERY HEAVY RAINS...DANGEROUS LIGHNING GUSTY WINDS
AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. A COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH NEBRASKA AT LATE
AFTERNOON WILL GIVE ANOTHER CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE NIGHT.
KAYS

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
455 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 1986

AT 455 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF A LINE
FROM PAWNEE CITY NEABRASKA TO 10 MILES WEST OF CLAY CENTER KANSAS
TP 5 MILES SOUTH OF ABILENE KANSAS STO ST MARYS KANSAS.

AT 452 PM CDT A COLD AIR FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC 2 MILES
SOUTH OF CLAY CENTER MOVING TO THE EAST. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING
TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

PERSONS IN CLAY COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT OF POSSIBLITIES FUNNEL CLOUDS
IN YOUR AREA.

HEAVY RAIN AND SOME LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE THUNDERSTORMS
AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA.
STAPLETON

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
507 PM CDT SAT AUG 9 1986

AT 503 PM CDT THE SHERIFF IN NORTHERN MORRIS COUNTY REPORTED A FUNNEL
CLOUD NEAR LATIMER. DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT WAS NOT REPORTED HOWEVER
RADAR SHOWED A LIKELY MOVEMENT TO THE EAST OR EASTNORTHEAST AROUND
25 MPH.

THE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON ARE NOT PART OF ANY
ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER SYSTEM. HOWEVER FUNNEL CLOUDS ARE POSSIBLE
UNTIL AROUND SUNSET. THE FUNNELS ARE QUITE SMALL AND WILL NOT LIKELY
REACH THE GROUND. IN THE RARE EVENT THEY DO TOUCH DOWN...IT WILL BE
ONLY BRIEFLY AND WILL LIKELY NOT DO ANY MAJOR DAMGAGE LIKE THOSE
ASSOCIATED WITH STRONG SEVERE WEATHER SYSTEMS.

PERSONS IN NORTHEAST KANSAS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
THE FORMATION OF THESE SO CALLED COLD AIR FUNNELS UNTIL AROUND SUNSET
AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY SHOULD FUNNELS APPROACH
THE GROUND. THE FUNNELS CAN DEVELOP QUITE RAPIDLY AND DISSIPATE JUST
AS QUICKLY SO LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS TYPE OF
WEATHER FEATURE.
KAYS