Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1988, 6:51 PM CDT for Cloud County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 1988, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1988, 7:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cloud 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 2178 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KCNK 282351
SVRCNK
KSC029-290100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
651 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
EASTERN CLOUD
AT 648 PM CDTT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FIVE MILES
SOUTHEAST OF CONCORDIA NEAR HUSCHER. AT 647 PM CDT HUSCHER
REPORTED HIGH WINDS ESTIMATED NEAR 60 MILE AN HOUR. THE STORM
IS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 15 MILE AN HOUR.
PEOPLE IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD GET INTO A REINFORCED SHELTER AND
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL.X..VERY HEAVY RAIN AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE LARGE
HAIL GREATER THAN 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER...DESTRUCTIVE WINDS OF OVER
60 MPH AND HEAVY RAINS WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS.
SCHNEIDERWhat 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 28, 5:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 545 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 1988 AT 540 PM RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA..NEAR RANDALL. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE LOVEWELL DAM AND RESERVOIR AREA BY 630 PM CDT. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WERE 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF RUSSELL NEAR LURAY AND LUCAS AND 15 MILES NORTH OF GREAT BEND. THESE SHOWER WERE ALSO MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PETERSEN
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 6:35 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 635 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 1988 AT 635 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA..NEAR SCANDIA AND 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MANKATO. BRIEF BUT VERY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH..MOVING THROUGH THE LOVEWELL DAM AREA AND 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF BELLEVILLE BY 7PM. OTHER SHOWERS AN=D THUNDERSHOWERS WERE MOVING INTO CENTRAL KANSAS AND WERE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM HUTCHINSON TO MOUNDRIDGE TO COUNCIL GROVE. THIS AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PETERSEN
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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.