Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 1990, 6:01 PM CST for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 1990, 6:01 PM CST (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 1990, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mitchell 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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 1053 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 6.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KCNK 140001
SVRCNK
KSC123-140045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
601 PM CST TUE MAR 13 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
SOUTHERN MITCHELL
AT 559 PM CST RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 45 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA NEAR HUNTER IN SOUTHWEST MITCHELL COUNTY.
THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL BE IN
THE BELOIT AREA BY 630 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE LARGE
6HAIL GREATER THAN 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER...DESTRUCTIVE WINDS OF OVER
60 MPH AND HEAVY RAINS WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS.
PHILLIPSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 6:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Morris | 64 min |
| Mar 13, 6:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jewell | 43 min |
| Mar 13, 6:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | McPherson | 25 min |
| Mar 13, 6:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Mitchell | 50 min |
| Mar 13, 6:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 48 min |
| Mar 13, 6:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jewell | 14 min |
| Mar 13, 6:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 54 min |
| Mar 13, 6:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 51 min |
| Mar 13, 6:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Geary | 63 min |
| Mar 13, 7:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jewell | 42 min |
| Mar 13, 7:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | McPherson | 40 min |
| Mar 13, 7:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Mitchell | 47 min |
| Mar 13, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ellsworth | 46 min |
| Mar 13, 7:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Morris | 15 min |
| Mar 13, 7:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Saline | 42 min |
| Mar 13, 7:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lincoln | 53 min |
| Mar 13, 7:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 54 min |
| Mar 13, 7:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee | 36 min |
| Mar 13, 7:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 49 min |
| Mar 13, 8:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Republic | 44 min |
| Mar 13, 8:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud | 42 min |
| Mar 13, 8:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Rice | 45 min |
| Mar 13, 8:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 22 min |
| Mar 13, 9:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Saline | 44 min |
| Mar 13, 9:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | McPherson | 51 min |
| Mar 13, 10:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TOP | Geary, Riley | 39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.