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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Topeka, KS

April 27, 1989Cloud County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1989, 6:39 PM CDT for Cloud County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 27, 1989, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 1989, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 66 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 27, 7:14 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Cloud, KS

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 273 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: 49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -417 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2019 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Apr 27, 4:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 27, 4:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 27, 5:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 27, 5:55 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 27, 6:18 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

KSZ007-008-010-011-280015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
617 PM CDT THU APR 27 1989

SEREVE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN RICE AND WESTERN ELLSWORTH
COUNTIES OF CENTR0AL KANSAS HAS BEEN CANCELED.  THE THUNDERSTORMS
HAVE MOVED TO THE NORTHEAST AND ARE NO LANGER A THREAT TO THE CLEARED
AREA.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
UNTIL 8 PM CDT.
PETERSEN

Special weather statement, Apr 27, 6:34 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

KSZ013-014-272305-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
505 PM CDT THU APR 27 1989

TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL
KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL
8 THIS EVENING WEST OF A LINE FROM MARYSVILLE TO WESTMORELAND TO
WINFIELD.  THE WATCH INCLUDES WESTERN PARTS OF NORTHEAST AND EAST
CENTRAL KANSAS.  SOME NORTHEAST KANSAS COMMUNITIES INCLUDED ARE...
MANHATTAN...JUNCTION CITY...MARYSVILLE AND COUNCIL GROVE.

AT 5PM THUNDERSTORMS WITH LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN HAD DEVELOPED FROM 20
MILES NORTHWEST TO 35 MILES NORTHNORTHWEST OF TOPEKA IN POTTAWATOMIE
AND NEMAHA COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST NEAR 30
MPH. NO SEVERE WEATHER IS ASSOCITATED WITH THESE STORMS.

A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED IN A
NORTH TO SOUTH LINE THROUGH CENTRAL KANSAS FROM WEST OF CONCORDIA TO
WEST OF WICHITA. THESE STORMS bWERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST NEAR 40 MPH
AND MAY MOVE INTO THE WEST PARTS OF NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
BY 7PM.
SCHULTZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 27, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lincoln, Mitchell	63 min
Apr 27, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Ellsworth, Rice	66 min
Apr 27, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Nemaha	49 min
Apr 27, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jewell	60 min
Apr 27, 6:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lincoln	58 min
Apr 27, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Republic	59 min
Apr 27, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	McPherson	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1989 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.