Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 1990, 2:35 AM CDT for Jackson County, Pottawatomie County, Shawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 1990, 2:35 AM CDT (07:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 1990, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jackson County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Shawnee 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 567 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 474 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KTOP 120736
SVRTOP
KSC177-197-085-149-120830-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
235 AM CDT SAT MAY 12 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
...SHAWNEE...WABAUNSEE
IN NORTHEAST KANSAS
...JACKSON...POTTAWATOMIE
AT 230AM CDT THE POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED GOLF BALL HAIL
AROUND ONE MILE NORTH OF WAMEGO OR AROUND 20 MILES EAST OF MANHATTAN.
THIS STORM WAS PART OF A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT WAS MOVING
EAST AROUND 35 MILES. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL EFFECT THE CITIES OF
TOPEKA AND HOLTON BY 3AM CDT.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME ORT BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY... SO
DON'T DRIVE ONTO WATER-COVERED ROADS.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, May 11, 11:31 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-120630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1130 PM CDT FRI MAY 11 1990 AT 1128 PM A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WAS 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HAYS NEAR MILLARD IN NORTHERN BARTON COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST RUSSELL COUNTY NEAR DORRANCE BY MIDNIGHT CDT. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A 40 TO 50 MILE WIDE AREA FROM GRAND ISLAND NEBRASKA TO GREAT BEND KANSAS TO 60 MILES SOUTH OF GREAT BEND AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. PHILLIPS
Special weather statement, May 11, 11:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
KSZALL-120600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1157 PM CDT FRI MAY 11 1990 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 215 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF KANSAS. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...SOUTHWEST... CLARK FINNEY FORD GRAY HASKELL HODGEMAN MEADE SEWARD THE FOLLOWING CITIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH... DODGE CITY GARDEN CITY LIBERAL THE TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 4AM FOR THAT PART OF KANSAS GENERALLY ENCLOSED BY A LINE FROM COLDWATER TO LARNED TO ST. JOHN TO MEDICINE LODGE AND BACK TO COLDWATER. SCHURR
Special weather statement, May 12, 12:34 AM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
KSZ007-008-010-011-120700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1232 AM CDT SAT MAY 12 1990 AT 1230 AM RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL KANSAS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND PERHAPS SOME HAIL. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE FROM NEAR SALINA TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON...NEAR LYONS BACK NORTH TO THE ELLSWORTH AREA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL KANSAS THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. SOME OF THESE WILL CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAINS... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND PERHAPS SOME HAIL. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO SPREAD ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH CENTRA6L KANSAS THE NEXT TWO HOURS. ADAMS
Special weather statement, May 12, 12:49 AM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
KSZ013>016-120700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1250 AM CDT SAT MAY 12 1990 AT 1245AM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED NEAR EMPORIA IN SOUTHERN LYON COUNTY. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE AROUND 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF EMPORIA APPROACHING SOUTHEAST MORRIS COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EASTNORTHEAST AROUND 35 MPH. STRONG STORMS WERE OVER CENTRAL KANSAS AS WELL. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OVERSPREADING MUCHW OF NORTHEAST AND EASTCENTRAL KANSAS BETWEEN 1AM AND 3AM CDT. SOME OF THE MORE INTENSE STORMS WILL PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING, VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 45 MPH. KAYS
Special weather statement, May 12, 1:34 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
KSZ007-008-010-011-120800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 133 AM CDT SAT MAY 12 1990 AT 132 AM WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE COVERING NORTH CENTAL AND CENTRAL KANSAS. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS IN A 40 MILE WIDE BAND FROM 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA TO 30 MILES EAST OF SALINA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL KANSAS THE NEXT TWO HOURS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND THERE WERE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS MOVING EAST. ADAMS
Special weather statement, May 12, 1:48 AM CDT, 47 minutes before
KSZ013>016-120800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 148 AM CDT SAT MAY 12 1990 AT 140AM CDT SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM NEAR MANHATTAN TO NEAR OTTAWA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 35 MPH. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING, GUSTY WINDS AROUND 45 MPH, BRIEF DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THE STRONG STORMS. THE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGER AREA OF SHOWERS AND VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS THAT WAS OVERSPREADING NORTHEAST AND EASTCENTRAL KANSAS. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE MAIN PRECIPITATION AREA WAS FROM JUST NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA TO NEAR OTTAWA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY OVERSPREAD THE TOPEKA/LAWRENCE AREAS BETWEEN 2 AND 3AM CDT. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE OVER NORTHEAST AND EASTCENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL AT LEAST SUNRISE. KAYS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 2:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 55 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.