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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Topeka, KS

June 28, 1988Cloud County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1988-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1988-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
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.


SCHNEIDER

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 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

Nearby

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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.