Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1990, 12:13 AM CDT for Cloud County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report 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
- May 14, 1990, 12:13 AM CDT (05:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1990, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cloud 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 12:50 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Cloud, 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 1160 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 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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TTAA00 KCNK 140513
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KSC029-140600-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
1213 AM CDT MON MAY 14 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE NORTH CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
CLOUD
AT 1210 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE
CONCORDIA AREA MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. AT 1210 AM
WINDS REACHED 62 MPH AT THE WEATHER OFFICE AT THE CONCORDIA
AIRPORT.
THE STORM WILL BE IN THE MILTONVALE AREA BY 1230 AM.
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.
ADAMSWhat 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 13, 9:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-140300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 900 PM CDT SUN MAY 13 1990 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 228 IS IN EFFECT FOR SMITH AND OSBORNE COUNTIES OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND RUSSELL COUNTY OF CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT. AT 900 PM NO SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTH CENTRAL OR CENTRAL KANSAS. THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTHWEST KANSAS WEST OF HILL CITY AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. PHILLIPS
Special weather statement, May 13, 9:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 935 PM CDT SUN MAY 13 1990 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 228 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR A PART OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...NORTHWEST... CHEYENNE SHERMAN THE FOLLOWING CITIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH... GOODLAND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 228 CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...NORTHWEST... DECATUR GRAHAM NORTON RAWLINS SHERIDAN THOMAS ...NORTH CENTRAL... OSBORNE PHILLIPS ROOKS SMITH ...WEST CENTRAL... GOVE LOGAN TREGO WALLACE ...CENTRAL... ELLIS RUSSELL SOME CITIES STILL INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE... HAYS HILL CITY RUSSELL SMIT CENTER REPEATING...SEVERE THUDERSTORM WATCH 228 HAS BEEN CA[NCELLED FOR SHERMAN AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES OF EXTREME NORTHWEST KANSAS. BILLS
Special weather statement, May 13, 10:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-140400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1002 PM CDT SUN MAY 13 1990 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 228 IS IN EFFECT FOR SMITH AND OSBORNE COUNTIES OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND RUSSELL COUNTY OF CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT. AT 1000 PM A 50 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM 30 MILES EAST OF PHILLIPSBURG TO 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PHILLIPSBURG. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN GUSTY WINDS HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. PERSONS IN SMITH AND OSBORNE COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH. PHILLIPS
Special weather statement, May 13, 10:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1010 PM CDT SUN MAY 13 1990 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 228 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR A PART OF NORTHWEST AND WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...NORTHWEST... CHEYENNE SHERMAN RAWLINS THOMAS ...WEST CENTRAL... WALLACE LOGAN THE FOLLOWING CITIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH... GOODLAND COLBY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 228 CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...NORTHWEST... DECATUR GRAHAM NORTON SHERIDAN ...NORTH CENTRAL... OSBORNE PHILLIPS ROOKS SMITH ...WEST CENTRAL... GOVE TREGO ...CENTRAL... ELLIS RUSSELL SOME CITIES STILL INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE... HAYS HILL CITY RUSSELL SMITH CENTER BILLS
Special weather statement, May 13, 11:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-140505- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1104 PM CDT SUN MAY 13 1990 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 228 IS IN EFFECT FOR SMITH AND OSBORNE COUNTIES OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND RUSSELL COUNTY OF CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT. AT 1102 PM THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL WERE 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA NEAR BURR OAK...45 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA NEAR ESBON AND 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG IN SOUTHEAST SMITH COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE TO NEAR SCANDIA AND JEWELL BY MIDNIGHT CDT. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAWIN HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WERE IN NORTHWEST KANSAS 35 MILES SOUTH OF PHILLIPBURG NEAR STOCKTON AND WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PHILLIPS
Special weather statement, May 14, 12:04 AM CDT, 9 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-140605- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1203 AM CDT MON MAY 14 1990 AT 1202 AM A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WAS 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA OR 10 MILES WEST OF WASHINGTON. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER WASHINGTON BY 1225 AM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WERE IN A 5 MILE WIDE LINE FROM 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA TO 30 MILES WEST OF CONCORDIA AND WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 229 IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND ALL OF CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 5 AM CDT. PHILLIPS
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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.