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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Topeka, KS

August 14, 1990Barton County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 1990, 4:36 PM CDT for Barton County, Kansas. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 14, 1990, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 1990, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
69 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 12:00Z, 9.6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1990-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 262 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1990-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 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
262 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
852 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCNK 142136
SVRCNK
KSC009-142245-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
436 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
      EASTERN BARTON

AT 430 PM CDT BARTON COUNTY POLICE REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
2 MILES NORTH OF GREAT BEND.  GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED
WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST
AT 20 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, Aug 14, 10:38 AM CDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-141635-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
1038 AM CDT TUE AUG 14 1990

AT 1035 AM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGTNING WERE
IN THE 10 MILE WIDE LINE FROM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SALINA TO 15 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF SALINA NEAR BROOKVILLE.  OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
WERE SOUTHWEST OF A LINE FROM NEAR HOLDREGE NEBRASKA TO 45 MILES NORTH
EAST OF CONCORDIA NEAR HANOVER TO JUNCTION CITY TO NEAR HILLSBORO.
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

SOME HEAVY RAINS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS SYSTEM.  LUCAS RECEIVED
1.80 INCHES...COVERT RECEIVED 1.08 INCHES...AND NEAR SHADY BEND .85
INCHES WAS REPORTED.

URBAN
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 11:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-141745-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
1145 AM CDT TUE AUG 14 1990

AT 1145 AM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGTNING WERE
LOCATED ABOUT 45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG OR 10 MILES SOUTH SOUTH
EAST OF OSBOURNE.  OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A
40 MILE LINE EXTENDING FROM  15 MILES SOUTH OF KEARNEY NEBRASKA TO NEAR
CONCORDIA TO WASHINGTONA TO MANHATTAN TO SALINA TO NEAR MCPHERSON.
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

URBAN
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 2:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-142045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
245 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 1990

AT 245 PM CDT A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED 20 MILES SOUTH OF
CONCORDIA NEAR DELPHOS.  BRIEF HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THIS THUNDER/
STORM AS IT MOVES TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH...MOVING TO NEAR MANCHESTER AND
LONGFORD BY 345PM.

IN CENTRAL KANSAS THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING WEST OF A LINE FROM 35
MILES SOUTHEAST OF GREAT BEND TO GREAD BEND TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HAYS
TO 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HILL CITY.  MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS TO THE
EAST AT 20 MPH.
MP
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 3:43 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-142145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
342 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 1990

AT 340 PM CDT A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED 10 MILES WEST
OF GREAT BEND.  THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH AND
WILL MOVE THROUGH GREAD BEND BY 430 PM.  BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED.  OTHER THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL KANSAS WERE
IN AN AREA 30 MILES WIDE EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES WEST OF HUTCHINSON TO
HILL CITY.

IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS 30 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF CONCORDIA NEAR LONGFORD AND MANCHESTER.  THESE THUNDER/
STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE TO NEAR
JUNCTIOpN CITY BY 445 PM.
MP
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 4:22 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-142220-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
420 PM CDT TUE AUG 14 1990

AT 420 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 5 MILES
EAST OF GREAD BEND.  THIS THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED BRIEF BUT VERY HEAVY RAIN
AND LOTS OF LIGHTNING AS IT MOVED THROUGH GREAT BEND AROUND 4 PM.
THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE
ELLINWOOD BY 430 PM.  BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN
BE EXPECTED ALONG WITH RAPID RISES ON CREEKS AND STREAMS...ALSO SOME
FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREA IS ALSO POSSIBLE.
MP

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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.