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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Topeka, KS

June 14, 1990Jewell County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1990, 7:56 PM CDT for Jewell County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 1990, 7:56 PM CDT (00:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 1990, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Jewell 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 231 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3606 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 209 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 14, 5:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

KSZ013>016-142345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
537 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 OVER CENTRAL KANSAS WERE MOVING SLOWLY TOWARD
COUNCIL GROVE AT 530PM. THERE WERE LOCATED ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
SALINA IN NORTHERN MARION COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO WESTERN MORRIS COUNTY BETWEEN 6PM
AND 7PM.

THE MAIN DANGER FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS COMES IN THE FORM OF GUSTY...
POSSIBLY DAMAGING WINDS... AND POSSIBLY LARGE HAIL. PEOPLE ON COUN@CIL
GROVE RESERVOIR SHOULD BE READY TO MOVE QUICKLY TO SHORE. CAMPERS IN
THIS LOCATION SHOULD FIND AND BE READY TO MOVE QUICKLY TO A STRONG SHELTER.

MAY

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 6:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 14, 6:59 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 14, 7:20 PM CDT, 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 14, 7:28 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 14, 7:39 PM CDT, 17 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 14, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Cloud, Republic	30 min
Jun 14, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Saline	26 min
Jun 14, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Smith	38 min
Jun 15, 6:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Washington	63 min
Jun 15, 8:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	58 min
Jun 15, 9:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Shawnee	65 min
Jun 15, 9:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Franklin, Osage	65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1990 Every 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.