Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 1990, 8:30 PM CST for Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 1990, 8:30 PM CST (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 1990, 9:15 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rice 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3214 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 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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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
830 PM CST TUE MAR 13 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
RICE
AT 827 PM CST RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES EAST
OF GREAT BEND NEAR LYONS. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT
30 MPH AND WILL MOVE TO EXTREME NORTHEAST RICE COUNTY BY 900 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
HAIL GREATER THAN 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER...DESTRUCTIVE WINDS OF OVER
60 MPH AND HEAVY RAINS WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS.
PHILLIPSWhat 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, Mar 13, 3:07 PM CST, 5 hours 23 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-132205- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 306 PM CST TUE MAR 13 1990 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CST TONIGHT. AT 305 PM RADAR SHOWED NEWLY DEVELOPED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING 30 MILES NORTHEAST AND 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTE3D TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS AND PERSONS IN NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR SEVERE WEATHER. PHILLIPS
Special weather statement, Mar 13, 3:58 PM CST, 4 hours 32 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-132330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 357 PM CST TUE MAR 13 1990 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CST TONIGHT. AT 355 PM THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WERE LOCATED 50 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA NEAR ALTON IN OSBORNE COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE NEAR SMITH CENTER BY 5 PM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE COVER. KLEYLA
Special weather statement, Mar 13, 5:31 PM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes before
KSZ013-016-140030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 530 PM CST TUE MAR 13 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN KANSAS TIL 10 PM... AT 525PM CST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE EASTERN BORDER OF THE STATE MOVING NORTHEAST INTO MISSOURI AROUND 40 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CONTAINING A TORNADO WAS MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS JUST EAST OF HUTCHINSON NEAR HESSTON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 45 MPH. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED OVER NORTHEAST NOR EASTCENTRAL KANSAS. KAYS
Special weather statement, Mar 13, 5:42 PM CST, 2 hours 48 minutes before
KSZ013-016-140045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 540 PM CST TUE MAR 13 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN KANSAS TIL 10 PM... A LARGE DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO HAS BEEN ON THE GROUND IN CENTRAL KANSAS SINCE 450PM CST. THE PROJECTED PATH OF THIS STORM WOULD PLACE MORRIS COUNTY UNDER DIRECT THREAT OF THIS STORM BY 630PM CST. WITH SUNSET AROUND 630PM, SPOTTERS SHOULD BE TAKING THEIR PLACE IN SOUTHWEST MORRIS COUNTY AT THIS TIME. THE STORM WILL BE MORE DIFFICULT TO FOLLOW AFTER DARK AND SPOTTERS SHOULD BE IN PLACE BY THEN. KAYS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 6:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Mitchell | 44 min |
| 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, 8:35 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.