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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Topeka, KS

July 27, 1990Clay County, Dickinson County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1990, 7:16 PM CDT for Clay County, Dickinson County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 min. 2 reports 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
Jul 27, 1990, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 1990, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Clay County, KS, 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
Jul 27, 7:20 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 60Dickinson, KS
Jul 27, 7:24 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52Clay, 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, 0.3 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 00:00Z on 1990-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1990-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 63 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
278 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
9.6

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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, Jul 27, 5:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-272300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
505 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990

AT 5 PM THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
WERE LOCATE`D 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SALINA JUST SOUTH OF KANOPOLIS...15
MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF SALINA JUST WEST OF LINDSBORG...AND 20 MILES
SOUTH JUST NORTH OF MCPHERSON.

THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR.

PACKETT
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 5:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-272330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
527 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990

AT 527 PM THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
WITH POSSIBLE HAIL WERE LOCATED 20 MILES SOUTH OF SALINA NEAR LINDSBORG
AND 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SALINA FROM NEAR MARQUETTE TO KANOPOLIS LAKE.

THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL NEAR
SALINA AREA BY 630 PM CDT.
MP
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 6:27 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
KSZ013>016-280100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
627 PM CDT THU JUL 26 1990

AT 620PM CDT STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST OF
JUNCTION CITY CITY IN WESTERN CLAY AND WESTERN DICKINSON COUNTIES. THESE STORMS
WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AND IF CONTINUING THEIR CURRENT STRENGTH, WILL
POSE A THREAT OF HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO RILEY AND GEARY COUNTIES
UNTIL 730PM CDT. NO OTHER THUNDERSTORMS POSED A THREAT TO
NORTHEAST OR EASTCENTRAL KANSAS AT 620PM CDT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL LIKELY BE THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS.

THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVERNIGHT. THESE
STORMS WILL LIKELY? CONTAIN HEAVY RAINS. TEMPERATURES WILL DROP TO THE MID
70S BY MIDNIGHT WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS NEAR 70. OUTSIDE OF THUNDERSTORMS,
SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 5 TO 15 MPH ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT.

KAYS
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 6:28 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
KSZ013>016-280100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
627 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990

AT 620PM CDT STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST OF
JUNCTION CITY CITY IN WESTERN CLAY AND WESTERN DICKINSON COUNTIES. THESE STORMS
WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AND IF CONTINUING THEIR CURRENT STRENGTH, WILL
POSE A THREAT OF HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO RILEY AND GEARY COUNTIES
UNTIL 730PM CDT. NO OTHER THUNDERSTORMS POSED A THREAT TO
NORTHEAST OR EASTCENTRAL KANSAS AT 620PM CDT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL LIKELY BE THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS.

THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVERNIGHT. THESE
STORMS WILL LICKELY CONTAIN HEAVY RAINS. TEMPERATURES WILL DROP TO THE MID
70S BY MIDNIGHT WITH OVERNIGHT LOWS NEAR 70. OUTSIDE OF THUNDERSTORMS,
SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 5 TO 15 MPH ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT.

KAYS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 7:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPOttawa2 hr
Jul 27, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPGeary, Morris, Riley44 min
Jul 27, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee59 min

Nearby

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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.