Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1989, 5:31 PM CDT for Coffey County, Osage County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min. 6 reports 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
- Jun 2, 1989, 5:31 PM CDT (22:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1989, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coffey County, KS, Osage 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 5:40 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Coffey, KS | |
| Jun 2, 5:43 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Osage, KS | |
| Jun 2, 5:50 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Osage, KS | |
| Jun 2, 6:06 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Osage, KS | |
| Jun 2, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Osage, KS | |
| Jun 2, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Osage, 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 1363 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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, Jun 2, 4:56 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
KSZ016-022300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 455 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 1989 AT 445PM CDT STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTH OF EMPORIA TO 45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EMPORIA OR OVER CENTRAL GREENWOOD AND SOUTHERN WOODSON COUNTY. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAINS. IF THE STORMS REMAIN STRONG, THEY WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN COFFEY AND SOUTHWEST ANDERSON COUNTIES BETWEEN 500PM AND 530PM CDT. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST BETWEEN 20 AND 25 MPH. THE STORMS WILL BE EFFECTING THE TOWN OF BURLINGTON AND JOHN REDMOND RESERVOIR BY 530 PM CDT. IF THE STORMS RETAIN THEIR INTENSITY, WARNINGS WILL BE LIKELY FOR THIS AREA BETWEEN 5/ AND 6PM CDT. BOATERS ON JOHN REDMOND SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE HARBOR. KAYS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin, Osage | 50 min |
| Jun 2, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 36 min |
| Jun 2, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Atchison | 47 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.