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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Topeka, KS

June 14, 1990Dickinson County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1990, 4:32 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 1990, 4:32 PM CDT (21:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1990, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Dickinson 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 132 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 1990-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2161 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 1990-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 118 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
2161 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
809 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
7.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCNK 142132
SVRCNK
KSC041-142215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
432 PM CDT THU JUN 14 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
      SOUTHERN DICKINSON

AT 440 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHEAST
SALINE COUNTY 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SALINA NEAR GYPSUM MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.  THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
IN ASSARIA.  THIS STORM SHOULD BE SOUTH OF ENTERPRISE BY 510 PM.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA SO REMEMBER
THESE STORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE
OR NO ADVANCE WARNING...SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT.

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 S_EVERE 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.

KLEYLA

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 14, 11:01 AM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
KSZ013>016-141700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1100 AM CDT THU JUN 14 1990

THUNDERSTORMS SPREAD FROM SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA INTO THE NORTHERN
SECTION OF NORTHEAST KANSAS BETWEEN 1030 AND 11 THIS MORNING.
AT 11AM...THE STORMS REACHED FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARYSVILLE
ALONG THE NEBRASKA BORDER THROUGH SABETHA AND HIAWATHA TO 10 MILES
WEST OF ST. JOSEPH...MISSOURI.

HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING 30 MILES WEST OF ST. JOSEPH AROUND HIAWATHA.
STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS LAY JUST NORTH OF THE NEBRASKA LINE AND THEY
SHOULD CROSS THE AREA AROUND AND NORTH OF HIAWATHA BETWEEN 11 AND
NOON TODAY.  HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL WILL
ACCOMPANY THIS BAND OF STORMS.

ANOTHER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS EAST OF A LINE FROM KANSAS
CITY TO LAWRENCE TO 60 MILES SOUTH OF TOPEKA AT BURLINGTON.  A FEW
SPOTS BETWEEN BURLINGTON AND 25 MILES SOUTH OF KANSAS CITY AT PAOLA
WERE ALSO GETTING SOME BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

ALL THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

SCHURR
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 11:37 AM CDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before
KSZ013>016-141745-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1136 AM CDT THU JUN 14 1990

...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS POSTED FROM ALL OF NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL
   KANSAS FOR THIS AFTERNOON...

AT 1130 THIS MORNING THUNDERSTORMS LAY ALONG THE NEBRASKA BORDER NORTH
OF TOPEKA AND ALSO SOUTH OF OTTAWA.  HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING ALONG AND
NORTH OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES EAST OF MARYSVILLE AT SENECA EAST THROUGH
HIAWATHA TO ST. JOSEPH...MISSOURI.

HEAVY RAIN WAS ALSO FALLING 50 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TOPEKA FROM OTTAWA
AND GARNETT...EAST TO THE MISSOURI BORDER.  LA CYGNE...A COMMUNITY 30
MILES SOUTHEAST OF OTTAWA...RECEIVED ALMOST TWO AND A HALF /2.45/
INCHES OF RAIN BETWEEN 930 AND 1130 THIS MORNING.

THE GROUND REMAINS SATURATED FROM EARLIER RAINS...SO THOSE AREAS THAT
GET HEAVY DOWNPOURS THIS AFTERNOON WILL LIKELY SEE LOW AREAS AND SMALL
STREAMS FLOOD.  PEOPLE SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBLITY
OF FLOODING.  MOTOR4ISTS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER OVER
ROADWAYS.

SCHURR
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 3:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-142115-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
324 PM CDT THU JUN 14 1990

TORNADO WATCH 462 IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL
KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM.  THE WATCH AREA IS GENERALLY WEST OF A LINE FROM
MANKATO TO HUTCHINSON.

AT THIS TIME RADAR IS NOT INDICATING ANY THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL KANSAS
BUT THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS NEAR
GARDEN CITY AND WERE MOVMING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.  THE ATMOSPHERE OVER
NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL KANSAS IS VERY UNSTABLE AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY
DEVELOP RAPIDLY IN THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS.

KLEYLA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBarton50 min
Jun 13, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBarton30 min
Jun 13, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPWashington45 min
Jun 13, 11:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall49 min
Jun 13, 11:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPWashington43 min
Jun 14, 12:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall46 min
Jun 14, 12:21 AM CDTTornado WarningTOPCloud29 min
Jun 14, 12:21 AM CDTTornado WarningTOPWashington39 min
Jun 14, 12:26 AM CDTTornado WarningTOPMarshall49 min
Jun 14, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPSaline51 min
Jun 14, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson33 min
Jun 14, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPEllsworth29 min
Jun 14, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPSaline29 min
Jun 14, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsborne33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

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.