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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Topeka, KS

June 14, 1990Dickinson County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1990, 5:27 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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 14, 1990, 5:27 PM CDT (22:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1990, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
33 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 14, 5:55 PM CDTHail 1Dickinson, 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 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

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 14, 11:37 AM CDT, 5 hours 50 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, 2 hours 2 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
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 4:55 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
KSZ013>016-142300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
453 PM CDT THU JUN 14 1990

...TORNADO WATCH 464 FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM CDT...
...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS POSTED FROM ALL OF NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL
KANSAS TONIGHT...

THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAD PRODUCED HEAVY RAINS EARLIER IN THE AFTERNOON
HAD MOVED EAST INTO MISSOURI.

AT ABOUT 430 PM RADAR INDICATED ONLY A FEW SHOWERS SCATTERED BETWEEN
LAWRENCE AND KANSAS CITY MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH.

NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS HOWEVER A LINE OF INTENSE
THUNDERSTORMS SOME SEVERE WERE IN CENTRAL KANSAS NEAR SALINA.

THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH.

PERSONS IN THE JUNCTION CITY AND COUNCIL GROVE AREAS...ABOUT 30 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF JUNCTION CITY...SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER
AS THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO YOUR AREA OVER
THE NEXT 2 TO 3 HOURS IF IT HOLDS ITS PRESENT COURSE.

FRANTZ

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, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson43 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.