Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1990, 5:16 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 min. 2 reports 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 15, 1990, 5:16 PM CDT (22:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1990, 5:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dickinson 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 15, 5:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Dickinson, KS | |
| May 15, 5:33 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Dickinson, 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 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 389 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 8.7
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 15, 2:37 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 15, 3:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-152100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 302 PM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 236 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS EAST OF A LINE FROM ANTHONY TO HUTCHINSON TO BELOIT AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM BELOIT TO CONCORDIA TO LEAVENWORTH. IN ADDITIONA A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 3 PM RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST KANSAS BETWEEN TOPEKA AND KANSAS CITY AND IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA JUST NORTH AND WEST OF GRAND ISLAND. THERE WERE NO SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL OR NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...HOWEVER RADID DEV;ELOPMENT COULD OCCUR OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. MP
Special weather statement, May 15, 3:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
KSZ013>016-152130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 354 PM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 238 IS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 239 IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS FOR TONIGHT... AT 345 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER BETWEEN KANSAS CITY AND ST JOSEPH. NO ECHOES WERE INDICATED OVER THE REMAINDER OF NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. HOWEVER TORNADO WATCHES REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF KANSAS UNTIL 10 O'CLOCK. MCNULTY
Special weather statement, May 15, 4:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-152205- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 405 PM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 TORNADO WATCH NUMDER 238 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL KANSAS. THE TORNADO WATCH APPLIES TO THAT PART OF THE AREA EAST OF A LINE FROM BELLEVILLE TO SALINA TO NEWTON. AT 405 PM THERE WERE NO THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL OR NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. AND NONE WERE MOVING TOWARD THIS AREA. HOWEVER VERY UNSTABLE AND MOIST AIR ALONG WITH A FRONTAL BOUNDARY CONTINUES ACROSS THE AREA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP RAPIDLY THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO AND LIKELY BECOME SEVERE IN LOCAL AREAS. SO STAY ALERT. ADAMS
Special weather statement, May 15, 4:55 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
KSZ013>016-162300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 455 PM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 238 IS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES OVER EASTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS FOR THE REST OF TONIGHT... AT 450 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING NEAR SALINA. THE STORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH TOWARD OR INTO THE MANHATTAN/ FT RILEY AND JUNCTION CITY AREA AROUND 6PM. NO OTHER STORMS WERE INDICATED ON WEATHER RADAR SHORTLY BEFORE 5PM...HOWEVER THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS EXTREMELY UNSTABLE AND VOLATILE AND THUNDERSTORMS COULD FORM RAPIDLY JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RiADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. AKULOW
Special weather statement, May 15, 5:01 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-152300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 458 PM CDT TUE MAY 15 1990 AT 458 PM RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM BUILDING RAPIDLY SOME 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SALINA. IT COVERS A PART OF SOUTHWEST DICKINSON COUNTY...SOUTHEAST SALINE AND NORTHEAST MCPHERSON. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS IT MOVES EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE TO JUST SOUTH OF ABILENE TO NEAR NAVARRE BY 520 PM. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS INTENSE STORM BE ALERT AND TAKE PRECAUTIONS AS NECESSARY. TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 238 CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR THAT PART OF KANtSAS ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM NEAR BELLEVILLE TO SALINA TO NEWTON. ADAMS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 12:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 53 min |
| May 15, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 58 min |
| May 15, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Barton, Russell | 46 min |
| May 15, 4:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Rice | 34 min |
| May 15, 4:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | McPherson | 43 min |
| May 15, 7:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Osage | 3 hr |
| May 15, 7:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Lyon | 119 min |
| May 15, 7:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas | 99 min |
| May 15, 8:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Washington | 4 hr |
| May 15, 8:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Republic | 4 hr |
| May 15, 8:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha, Pottawatomie | 39 min |
| May 15, 12:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas, Osage | 3 hr |
| May 15, 12:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Franklin | 2 hr |
| May 15, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson | 41 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.