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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Topeka, KS

June 26, 1989Cloud County, Ottawa County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1989, 4:18 PM CDT for Cloud County, Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 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
Jun 26, 1989, 4:18 PM CDT (21:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1989, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cloud County, KS, Ottawa 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 26, 4:22 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 56Ottawa, 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 177 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 1989-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 830 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1989-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
830 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-108 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1387 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 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, Jun 26, 10:24 AM CDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 11:34 AM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-261730-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
1132 AM CDT MON JUN 26 1989

AT 1130 AM THUNDERSTORMS WERE WEAKENING ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
CONCORDIA.  ONLY LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINFALL WAS INDICATED AS SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVED NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM OVER SOME SECTIONS
OF NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL KANSAS DURING THE AFTERNOON.

ADAMS
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 11:36 AM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
KSZ013-015-261740-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1137 AM CDT MON JUN 26 1989

AT 1130 AM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED OVER NORTHERN AND WESTERN
PARTS OF TOPEKA. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES EAST NORTHEAST THROUGH THE TOPEKA
AREA.

WITH A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE OVER EASTERN NORTHEAST
EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY LATER
ON THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS OF SEVERAL INCHES COULD
FALL IN A BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME WITH SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS.

BILLS
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 11:58 AM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
KSZ013-015-261800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1158 AM CDT MON JUN 26 1989

AT 1153 AM CDT...THE THUNDERSTORM THAT HAD DEVELOPED OVER NORTHWEST
TOPEKA AT 1130 AM...HAD DISSIPATED.

WITH A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE OVER EASTERN NORTHEAST
EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY LATER
ON THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS OF SEVERAL INCHES COULD
FALL IN A BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME WITH SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS.

BILLS
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 1:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-262000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
156 PM CDT MON JUN 26 1989

AT 155 PM THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WERE
FORMING RAPIDLY FROM 40 MILES WEST OF CONCORDIA NEAR GLEN ELDER
RESERVOIR TO 60 WEST OF CONCORDIA NEAR OSBORNE TO 15 MILES
NORTHWEST OF HAYS.  MOVEMENT SHOULD BE NORTHEAST ABOUT 25 MPH.

WITH A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE OVER THE REGION...
THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BRING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS TO SOME PARTS
OF NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON.

ADAMS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 3:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJewell59 min
Jun 26, 3:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCloud, Republic57 min
Jun 26, 3:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMitchell57 min
Jun 26, 3:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAtchison, Brown69 min
Jun 26, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMitchell, Osborne, Russell66 min
Jun 26, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Washington62 min
Jun 26, 5:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPMitchell6 hr
Jun 26, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAtchison35 min
Jun 26, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPPottawatomie35 min
Jun 26, 5:21 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPAtchison4 hr
Jun 26, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson32 min
Jun 26, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLincoln, Russell58 min
Jun 26, 6:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPJackson, Pottawatomie4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1989Every 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.