Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Topeka, KS
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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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.
PETERSENWhat 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.