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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Topeka, KS

July 30, 1989Washington County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 1989, 5:26 PM CDT for Washington County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 30, 1989, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 1989, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Washington 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 1598 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -197 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1452 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCNK 302226
SVRCNK
KSC201-302330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
526 PM CDT SUN JUL 30 1989

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
      SOUTHERN WASHINGTON

AT 524 PM CDT  RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES EAST
OF CONCORDIA...OR 5 MILES WEST OF CLIFTON.  THE STORM WAS MOVING
NORTHEST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE NEAR BRANTFORD..20 MILES
NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA...BY 625 PM.

PEOPLE IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD GET INTO A REINFORCED SHELTER AND
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...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.

SULLIVAN

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, Jul 30, 3:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

KSZ007-008-010-011-302110-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
310 PM CDT SUN JUL 30 1989

AT 308 PM RADAR SHOWED A NEWLY DEVELOPED THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY
RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING 25 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA NEAR
MUNDEN.  THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP OVER NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL
KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS.

PHILLIPS

Special weather statement, Jul 30, 4:42 PM CDT, 44 minutes before

KSZ013>016-302240-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
440 PM CDT SUN JUL 30 1989

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY NEAR JUNCTION CITY...

AT 435 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER FORT RILEY. FORT RILEY
IS ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF JUNCTION CITY. THIS STORM HAS DEVELOPED
RAPIDLY SINCE 4 PM. VERY HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MILES AN
AN HOUR...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL MAY BE EXPECTED
WITH THIS STORM. NO MOVEMENT HAS BEEN DETERMINED YET BUT THE STORM
WILL LIKELY BE MOVING IN A SOUTHEASTERLY DIRECTION.

OTHER DEVELOPING STRONG STORMS WERE OVER NORTH CENTRAL KANSS AROUND
CONCORDIA...AND IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AROUND AND TO THE EAST OF
WICHITA.

BILLS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 30, 5:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Cloud	29 min
Jul 30, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay, Cloud	61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.