Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Topeka, KS
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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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.
KLEYLAWhat 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Barton | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Barton | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 43 min |
| Jun 14, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 46 min |
| Jun 14, 12:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud | 29 min |
| Jun 14, 12:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Washington | 39 min |
| Jun 14, 12:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Saline | 51 min |
| Jun 14, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 33 min |
| Jun 14, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ellsworth | 29 min |
| Jun 14, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Saline | 29 min |
| Jun 14, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osborne | 33 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.