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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Topeka, KS

June 15, 1990Washington County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1990, 6:42 AM CDT for Washington County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 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 15, 1990, 6:42 AM CDT (11:42 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1990, 7:45 AM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Washington 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 15, 6:50 AM CDTHail 0.75Washington, 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 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 152 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 00:00Z on 1990-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 422 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 00:00Z on 1990-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -94 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
422 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-397 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1420 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
7.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCNK 151142
SVRCNK
KSC201-151245-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
642 AM CDT FRI JUN 15 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
      WASHINGTON

AT 641 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 40 MILES
NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA OR 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF WASHINGTON.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

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 SEVERE 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.

PETERSEN

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 15, 2:31 AM CDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-150830-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
230 AM CDT FRI JUN 15 1990

AT 230 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN 30 MILES
EAST OF SALINA FROM NEAR ENTERPRISE TO WOODBINE.  VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH
THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY CAUSE SOME FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS
AND RISES ON CREEKS AND SMALL STREAMS OF EAST-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST
DICKINSON COUNTY INTO THE MORNING HOURS.  THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING
THE EAST AT 10 MPH.  A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THIS MORNING
FOR WASHINGTON...CLAY...DICKINSON AND MARION COUNTIES OF CENTRAL AND
AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA HAVE SHOWN
AN INCREASES SINCE 2 AM WITH THE STRONGEST NEAR GRAND ISLAND.  THE
THUNDERSTORMS IN NEBRASKA WERE NORTH OF A LINE FROM OMAHA TO BEATRICE
TO 25 MILES WEST OF GRAND ISLAND.
PETERSEN
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 3:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
KSZ013>016-150900-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
300 AM CDT FRI JUN 15 1990

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF EASTERN KANSAS.

AT 255 AM CDT THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ALONG A 30 MILE WIDE BAND FROM
30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MANHATTAN TO 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OTTAWA. THE
MOST INTENSE STORM...CAPABLE OF DRENCHING RAINS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND
SOME HAIL WAS OVER NORTHWEST MORRIS COUNTY NEAR WHITE CITY OR 20 MILES
SOUTH OF JUNCTION CITY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AROUND
20 MPH AS THE AREA SHIFTED SLOWLY EAST.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND GRADUALLY MOVE INTO
NORTHEAST AND EASTCENTRAL KANSAS THE REST OF THE EARLY MORNING IHOURS.
SOME OF THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL LIKELY CONTAIN VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS,
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING, GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL.

PERSONS SHOULD ALSO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR FLOODING AS THE STORMS MOVE OVER
RAIN SOAKED GROUNDS.

KAYS
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 3:32 AM CDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-150930-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
331 AM CDT FRI JUN 15 1990

AT 330 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN 45 MILES
NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA NEAR HANOVER AND WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10
MPH.  THE THUNDERSTORM IS LIKELY PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ALONG WITH
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SHOULD MOVE TO JUST NORTHWEST OF MARYSVILLE BY
430 AM.  OTHER THUNDERSTOMS WERE EAST OF A LINE FROM BLUE RAPIDS TO
WASHINGTON TO FAIRBURY AND GRAND ISLAND NEBRASKA.

A FLASH FLOOD WATLCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT THIS MORNING FOR WASHINGTON...
CLAY...MARION AND DICKINSON COUNTIES OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL
KANSAS.

THE THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS IN THE ENTERPRISE/WOODBINE AREAS AT 230 AM
HAS MOVED TO NORTHERN MORRIS COUNTY AND AT 330 AM WAS CENTERED ABOUT 10
MILES NORTHWEST OF COUNCIL GROVE AND CONTINUES TO MOVE TO THE EAST AT
AROUND 10 MPH.

PETERSEN
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 5:12 AM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
KSZALL-151600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
513 AM CDT FRI JUN 15 1990

A LAKE WIND ADVISORY IS POSTED FOR THE RECREATIONAL LAKES OF WESTERN
KANSAS TODAY. GUSTY SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL BLOW OVER 30 MPH.
THESE WINDS WILL MAKE THE OPEN WATERS OF THE RECREATIONAL LAKES CHOPPY
AND HAZARDOUS. THE ADVISORY IS BASICALLY WEST OF A LINE FROM THE NEBRASKA
BORDER NORTHEAST OF NORTON THE OKLAHOMA BORDER SOUTHWEST OF PRATT.
BOATERS IN THE ADVISORY AREA SHOULD AVOID THE OPEN WATER AND SEEK SHELTER
NEAR THE SHORE OR IN PROTECTED INLETS.

THE HEAT INDEX WILL ALSO BE RISING OVER KANSAS INTO THE WEEKEND. HEAT
INDEX VALUES OF 105 TO 110 SHOULD BE COMMON OVER MUCH OF THE STATE BY
SATURDAY. THESE VALUES WILL PLACE A DANGEROUS STRESS ON THE BODY
ESPECIALLY THE ELDERLY. TAKE FREQUENT BREAKS FROM THE HEAT IF WORKING
OUTSIDE. ALSO TAKE PLENTY OF LIQUIDS TO AVOID DEHYDRATION.

KAYS
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 6:22 AM CDT, 20 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-151230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
621 AM CDT FRI JUN 15 1990

AT 620 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN 40 MILES
NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA ON THE NEBRASKA/KANSAS BORDER NORTH OF
WASHINGTON AND NEAR NARKA IN NORTHEAST REPUBLIC COUNTY.

THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 15 MPH AND
WILL SPREAD ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHERN WASHINGTON AND REPUBLIC COUNTIES
BY 730 AM THIS MORNING.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTH OF A LINE THAT EXTENED FROM
ONAGA TO WASHINGTON 10 MILES NORTH OF BELLEVILLE TO NEAR KEARNEY
NEBRASKA.
PETESREN
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 6:27 AM CDT, 15 minutes before
KSZALL-151220-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
625 AM CDT FRI JUN 15 1990

AT 620 AM A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS 10 MILES NORTHEAST
OF MARYSVILLE AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.  THE STORM WILL
MOVE INTO NORTHERN NEMAHA COUNTY ABOUT 635 AM.  PERSONS IN NORTHERN
NEMAHA COUNTY AND IN THE TOWN OF SENECA SHOULD PREPARE FOR HEAVY RAIN
AND SOME SMALL HAIL.

RAINSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS ALONG THE NEBRASKA
BORDER AND IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS JUST NORTH OF EMPORIA.  THESE SHOWERS
WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

RUFF

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCloud, Republic30 min
Jun 14, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPSaline26 min
Jun 14, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJewell34 min
Jun 14, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPSmith38 min
Jun 15, 8:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPPottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee58 min
Jun 15, 9:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPShawnee65 min
Jun 15, 9:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Franklin, Osage65 min

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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.