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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Topeka, KS

June 30, 1989Smith County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1989, 9:38 PM CDT for Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 30, 1989, 9:38 PM CDT (02:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 1989, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Smith 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 244 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: 699 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 4.6

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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 30, 5:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before

KSZ013>016-010000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
555 PM CDT FRI JUN 30 1989

SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS DROPPING VERY HEAVY RAINS LINGERED OVER
PARTS OF NORTHEAST AND EASTCENTRAL KANSAS SHORTLY BEFORE 6PM THIS
EVENING. ONE STRONG STORM WAS JUST NORTH OF TOPEKA IN NORTHERN
SHAWNEE COUNTY...WHILE ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS STILL IN SOUTHWEST
SHAWNEE COUNTY. A THIRD STORM WAS ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAWRENCE.

A WIND GUST TO 47 MPH AND ONE HALF INCH OF RAIN IN ABOUT 15 MINUTES
WERE REPORTED FROM SOUTHWEST SHAWNEE COUNTY AROUND 520PM.

HEAVY RAINS FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL FLOOD LOW LYING AND POOR
DRAINAGE AREAS QUICKLY. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EF9FECT FOR THE
ENTIRE AREA OVERNIGHT AS ADDITIONAL RAINS COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING
AND STREAMS AND CREEKS.
.
AKULOW

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 6:15 PM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before

KSZ013>016-010010-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
615 PM CDT FRI JUN 30 1989

AT 612PM PEA SIZE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND INTENSE LIGHTNING
WAS OCCURING AT NATIONAL WEAiTHER SRVICE OFFICE IN TOPEKA.

SLIGHTLY OVER 3 TENTHS OF AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN ABOUT
10 MINUTES.

THIS STORMS IS MOVING SLOWLY EAST..AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWEST
DOUGLASS COUNTY AROUND 630PM-645 PM.

AKULOW

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 7:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

KSZ013>016-010100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
700 PM CDT FRI JUN 30 1989

THUNDERSTORMS HAD WEAKENED RAPIDLY OVER NORTHEAST AND EASTCENTRAL
KANSAS SINCE 630PM. AT 7 O CLOCK A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY
RAIN WAS ABOUT 50 MILES EAST OF EMPORIA IN SOUTHERN ANDERSON
COUNTY...WHILE OTHER LIGHTER SHOWERS WERE 30 MILES NORTH AND ABOUT 45
MILES SOUTH OF TOPEKA.

NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS TONIGHT.
HOWEVER LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS HAVE PRODUCE TEMPORARY FLOODING OF LOW
LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. ONE QUARTER INCH HAIL FELL AT
BILLARD AIRPORT IN TOPEKA AND WINDS TO 47 MPH WERE REPORTED IN SOUTH-
WEST SHAWNEE COUNTY.

THE POTENTIAL FOR MORE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES HIGH OVER NORTHEAST
KANSAS TONIGHTT. THUS A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT.
AKULOW

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 8:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 30, 9:20 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 30, 9:32 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Mitchell	55 min
Jun 30, 7:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Jewell	119 min
Jun 30, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Mitchell	68 min
Jun 30, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Mitchell	32 min
Jun 30, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lincoln, Russell	67 min
Jul 1, 3:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Barton	2 hr
Jul 1, 10:38 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	3 hr

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.