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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Topeka, KS

May 24, 1990Coffey County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1990, 9:59 PM CDT for Coffey County, Kansas. It was in force for 17 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 24, 1990, 9:59 PM CDT (02:59 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1990, 10:16 PM CDT
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Coffey 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 24, 10:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 65	Coffey, 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 85 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 739 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 362 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 487 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 24, 7:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

KSZ007-008-010-011-250200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
755 PM CDT THU MAY 24 1990

THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN DICKINSON COUNTY OF CENTRAL KANSAS
HAS EXPIRED AND WILL NOT BE EXTENDED.  THE STORM HAS MOVED INTO
MORRIS COUNTY.

AT 755 PM CDT A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS..
POSSIBLE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WAS 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SALINA.
ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SALINA.  ALL
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

REMEMBER A TORNADO WATCH COVERS ALL OF CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL
KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT.
SCHNEIDER

Special weather statement, May 24, 8:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

KSZ007-008-010-011-250300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
850 PM CDT THU MAY 24 1990

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 311 IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND NORTH
CENTRAL KANSAS EXCEPT CLAY AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES UNTIL 10 PM CDT.

AT 850 PM CDT ALL THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO EAST
CENTRAL KANSAS...HOWEVER CONDITIONS ARE SUCH THAT SEVERE STROMS
COULD DEVELOP RAPIDLY.  PERSONS IN CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANS0AS
SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT.
SCHNEIDER

Special weather statement, May 24, 9:21 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 24, 9:35 PM CDT, 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 24, 9:45 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 24, 9:47 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Dickinson	29 min
May 24, 7:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Morris	31 min
May 24, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon	67 min
May 24, 9:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Lyon	39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1990 Every 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.