Tornado Warning 1, NWS Topeka, KS

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
110 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 1988

AT 109 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS...
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND PERHAPS SOME HAIL WERE ALONG A 5 MILE WIDE LINE
EXTENDING FROM 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF WASHINGTON TO 5 MILES NORTH OF
ABILENE TO NEAR KANOPOLIS RESERVOIR AND LYONS KANSAS TO 30 MILES SOUTH
OF GREAT BEND.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INCREASING IN STRENGTH
AND COVERAGE.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY  MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL AND THE EAST
PORTONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON WITH ADDITONAL THUNDER/
STORMS LIKELY TO FORM ELSEWHERE.  LOCAL AREAS WILL HAVE HEAVY DOWNPOURS
GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND PERHAPS SOME HAIL.  SOME LOWLAND
FLOODING COULD RESULT FROM VERY HEAVY RAINS FALLING IN A SHORT TIME.

ADAMS

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
212 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 1988

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST AND
CENTRAL KANSAS..

AT 2 PM...A 20 MILE WIDE LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED
FROM HIAWATHA IN BROWN COUNTY THROUGH ST MARYS IN EASTERN POTTAWATOMIE
COUNTY THROUGH ALMA IN WABUNSEE COUNTY TO HUTCHINSON IN RENO COUNTY.
ANOTHER AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS WAS OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN SHAWNEE AND
NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTIES SOME 25 MILES SOUTH OF TOPEKA.

THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO CONTAIN WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MILES AN
HOUR AND POSSIBLY SOME PEA SIZE HAIL.

THE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE
INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN
HOUR.
NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THE STORMS SO FAR. THE MAIN
EFFECT FROM THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE BRIEF PERIODS OF
HEAVY RAIN.

THE LINE WILL CONTINUE MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.

BARLOW

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
225 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 1988

AT 225 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS UP TO
50 MPH...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SCATTERED HAIL CONTINUED IN PORTIONS OF
CENTRAL KANSAS.  THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG A NARROW LINE
FROM NEAR JUNCGION CITY TO JUST SOUTH OF ABILENE TO BETWEEN LINDSBORG
AND MCPHERSON TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON THEN TO NEAR
GREAT BEND.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

PERSONS IN CENTRAL KANSAS ALONG AND TO THE EAST OF THESE STRONG THUNDER/
STORMS SHOULD BE AWARE OF YOUR LOCAL WEATHER CONDITONS.  THUNDERSTORMS
WILL BECOME QUITE STRONG FOR A FEW MINUTES THEN WEAKEN AGAIN THE
RE#MAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON.  SOME HAIL...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL OCCUR IN LOCAL AREAS.

ADAMS

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
320 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 1988

...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL
KANSAS..

AT 310 PM...A 15 TO 20 MILE WIDE LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS
LOCATED FROM NEAR HIAWATHA IN BROWN COUNTY THROUGH ST MARYS IN SOUTHEAST
POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY TO 10 MILES WEST OF COUNCIL GROVE IN MORRIS COUNTY.
THE LINE THEN CONTINUED SOUTHWESTWARD INTO SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO CONTAIN WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MILES AN
HOUR.

THE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR WHILE THE
INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN
HOUR.

NO SEVERE WEATH`ER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THE STORMS. THE MAIN EFFECTS
FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN.

THE LINE WILL CONTINUE MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.

BARLOW

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
524 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 1988

AT 524 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN 15 TO 20 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA.  THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST
15 MPH AND WILL MOVE TO THE CLYDE/CLIFTON AREA BY 630 PM.  BRIEF HEAVY
RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED.

SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSHOWERS EXTENDED FROM THE GLASCO AND DELPHOS
SOUTHWEST IN AN AREA 15 MILESb WIDE TO LINCOLN 20 MILES WEST OF
ELLSWORTH.
PETERSEN

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
540 PM CDT SAT JUL 9 1988

...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN EASTERN AND SOUTHCENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 530 PM...THE LEADING EDGE OF A 50 MILE WIDE BAND OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG A ST. JOSEPH MISSOURI TO OLATHA KANSAS TO
JUST EAST OF WICHITA KANSAS.

SOME OF THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS PASSED THROUGH THE TOPEKA AREA AROUND
5PM CDT.  TOPEKA RECIEVED WIND GUSTS AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR AND A GOOD
SOAKING RAIN.  JUST OVER ONE HALF INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN TOPEKA.

THE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES
AN HOUR AND THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN
HOUR.

NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THE STORMS. THE MAIN EFFECTS
FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.
THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO EASTCENTRAL KANSAS AROUND
630 PM CDT...AND CONTINUE OVER NORTHEoAST AND EASTCENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH
THE EVENING HOURS.

REILLY