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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Topeka, KS

June 19, 1990Barton County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1990, 7:51 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 19, 1990, 7:51 PM CDT (00:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 1990, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Barton 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 3174 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 380 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

Local storm report, Jun 19, 4:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 19, 6:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

KSZ007-008-010-011-200000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
607 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 1990

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 502 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR PORTIONS
OF NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL KANSAS.  THE WATCH AREA IS GENERALLY WEST OF
A LINE FROM CONCORDIA TO HUTCHINSON.

AT 605 PM RADAR WAS SHOWING DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS
FROM DODGE CITY TO GARDEN CITY.  THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT
30 MPH AND MAY BE AFFECTING PORTIONS OF RUSSELL AND BARTON COUNTIES BY 7 PM.

KLEYLA

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 6:56 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

KSZ007-008-010-011-200150-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
655 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 1990

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 502 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR PORTIONS
OF NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL KANSAS.  THE WATCH AREA IS GENERALLY WEST OF
A LINE FROM CONCORDIA TO HUTCHINSON.

AT 650 PM RADAR WAS SHOWING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTH OF GARDEN CITY
TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF GREAT BEND NEAR ST. JOHN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN BARTON COUNTY BY 730 PM.
BRIEF HEAVY RAIN GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH
THE STRONGER STORMS.

KLEYLA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Morris	29 min
Jun 19, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Coffey	59 min
Jun 19, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Barton	25 min
Jun 19, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Franklin, Osage	36 min
Jun 19, 11:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Rice	28 min
Jun 19, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas	34 min
Jun 19, 11:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Franklin	3 hr
Jun 20, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	McPherson, Rice	27 min
Jun 20, 12:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	McPherson	26 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.