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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Topeka, KS

June 22, 1987Marshall County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1987, 3:22 PM CDT for Marshall County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 1987, 3:22 PM CDT (20:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 1987, 3:50 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Marshall 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 939 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1082 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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, Jun 22, 1:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 1:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 1:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 2:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 2:38 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
215 PM CDT MON JUN 22 1987

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 250 PM CDT FOR WABAUNSEE
COUNTY...

TORNADO WATCH #244 IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF EAST AND CENTRAL KANSAS
UNTIL 8 PM CDT...

AT 230PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
SOUTHWEST MARION COUNTY EXTENDING NORTH NORTHEAST TO NEAR ALMA IN
WABAUNSEE COUNTY.  AT 225PM CDT GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED 2 MILES
SOUTH OF ALTA VISTA IN WABAUNSEE COUNTY.  THE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST
NORTHEAST SLOWLY AND SLOWLY INTENSIFYING.

THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS WITH POTENTIALLY HEAVY RAINS, DAMAGING WINDS,
FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LARGE HAIL.

HALL

Special weather statement, Jun 22, 2:56 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
300 PM CDT MON JUN 22 1987

TORNADO WATCH #244 IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF EAST AND CENTRAL KANSAS
UNTIL 8 PM CDT...

AT 255PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTH-
WEST OF HILLSBORO IN MARION COUNTY EXTENDING EAST NORTHEAST TO EASTERN
WABAUNSEE COUNTY.  SOME DECREASE IN INTENSITY HAS BEEN INDICATED BY RADAR.
THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTH AT ABOUT 5 MILES AN HOUR.  HEAVY RAINS HAVE
STATIONARY OVER EASTERN MORRIS COUNTY FOR THE PAST HOUR WITH SOME PROBAB-
ILITY OF STREET AND LOWLAND FLOODING.
THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS WITH POTENTIALLY HEAVY RAINS, DAMAGING WINDS,
FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LARGE HAIL.

HALL

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	McPherson	45 min
Jun 22, 1:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	56 min
Jun 22, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, McPherson	50 min
Jun 22, 3:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Lyon, Morris	43 min
Jun 22, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall	27 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.