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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Topeka, KS

June 5, 1990Pottawatomie County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1990, 7:11 AM CDT for Pottawatomie County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1990, 7:11 AM CDT (12:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1990, 8:00 AM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Pottawatomie County, KS, Wabaunsee 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 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 58 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1990-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1990-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 267 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1573 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
267 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
376 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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, Jun 5, 4:35 AM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
KSZ009>017-051600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
435 AM CDT TUE JUN 5 1990

A LAKE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN POSTED FOR THE RECREATIONAL LAKES OF
CENTRAL AND EASTERN KANSAS TODAY. GUSTY SOUTHERLY WINDS OVER 30 MPH WILL
MAKE THE LAKES CHOPPY AND HAZARDOUS.

THE WINDS SHOULD BEGIN TO ABATE OVER NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS BY EARLY AFTERNOON
BUT WILL CONTINUE GUSTY OVER SOUTHCENTRAL AND EASTERN KANSAS THROUGH MUCH
OF THE AFTERNOON.

KAYS

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.