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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1987, 5:00 PM CDT for Atchison County, Jefferson County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1987, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1987, 5:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Atchison County, KS, Jefferson 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 954 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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, Aug 19, 2:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 250 PM CDT WED AUG 19 1987 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND MOST OF CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING..THE WATCH ALSO IS IN EFFECT FOR ADJACENT ARES OF EASTERN KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. AT 250 PM CDT NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN CENTRAL OR NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. STRONG TO INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA..SOME 60 MILES NORTH OF BELLEVILLE AND ABOUT 50 MILES NORTH OF WASHINGTON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR AND CAN WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY OF NORTHCENTRAL KASNAS BY 330 PM CDT. HAIL..STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS HA3VE BEEN REPORTED FROM THESE STORMS IN NEBRASKA..PERSONS IN NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER PPROACHES. SCHNEIDER
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 3:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 335 PM CDT WED AUG 19 1987 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND MOST OF CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING..THE WATCH ALSO IS IN EFFECT FOR ADJACENT AREAS OF EASTERN KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. AT 335 PM CDT STRONG TO INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO THE THE NORTHEAST PART OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF WASHINGTON NEAR HOLLENBERG AND HANOVER. HAIL..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED IN NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY. THE STORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE S|TORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER PPROACHES. SCHNEIDER
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 3:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 350 PM CDT WED AUG 19 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORHERN ATCHISON COUNTY UNTIL 4 PM CDT...WARNING FOR SOUTHERN BROWN COUNTY CANCELLED... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHEAST AND MOST OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM CDT... AT 340 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO NORTHERN ATCHISON COUNTY AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE CITY OF ATCHISON BY 405 PM CDT. GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND 50 TO 60 MILE AN HOUR WINDS WERE REPORTED WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVED ACROSS BROWN COUNTY BETWEEN 3 PM AND 340 PM. RESIDENTS OF NORTHERN AND EASTERN ATCHISON COUNTY SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY AS THIS STORM PASSES. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD ALSO MOVED INTO NORTHWEST MARSHALL COUNTY NEAR MARYSVILLE. THIS STORM WAS NOT AS STRONG AS THE ONE IN ATCHISON COUNTY..BUT WILL LIKELY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MILES AN HOUR AND SOME SMALL HAIL AS WELL AS HEAVY RAINS AS IT MOVES TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE ACROSS FRANKFORT AND INTO POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY TO NEAR WESTMORELAND AND ONAGA BY 430 PM THIS AFTERNOON. RESIDENTS IN NORTHEAST KANSAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN THEIR AREA FOR THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. BILLS
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 4:11 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 412 PM CDT WED AUG 19 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS FOR BROWN AND ATCHISON COUNTIES EXPIRED AT 4PM CDT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHEAST AND MOST OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM CDT... AT 400 PM CDT...THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BROWN AND ATCHISON COUNTIES..WAS MOVING INTO MISSOURI TO THE NORTH NORTHWEST OF KANSAS CITY. THE STORM HAD DECREASED SOME IN INTENSITY. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN MARSHALL COUNTY OVER OR NEAR FRANKFORT. THIS STORM PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR AS IT MOVED ACROSS MARYSVILLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE ACROSS ONAGA TO NEAR HOLTON BY 515 PM CDT. HOLTON IS ABOUT 25 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE SOME HAIL AS WELL AS GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MILES AN HOUR AND VERY HEAVY RAIN AS IT MOVES SOUTHEAST. RESIDENTS IN NORTHEAST KANSAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN THEIR AREA FOR THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. BILLS
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 4:39 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 32 min |
| Aug 19, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Atchison | 42 min |
| Aug 19, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 50 min |
| Aug 19, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 32 min |
| Aug 19, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 41 min |
| Aug 19, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 50 min |
| Aug 19, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin, Osage | 44 min |
| Aug 19, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin, Lyon, Osage, Wabaunsee | 44 min |
| Aug 19, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 46 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987
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.