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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Topeka, KS

June 6, 1990Marshall County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1990, 6:10 AM CDT for Marshall County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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: Jun 6, 1990, 6:10 AM CDT (11:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1990, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Marshall 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
Jun 6, 6:30 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 90	Marshall, 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 10.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTOP 061110
SVRTOP
KSC117-061200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
610 AM CDT WED JUN 6 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF KANSAS
      MARSHALL

AT 605 AM RADAR INDICATED TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...ONE NEAR
MARYSVILLE AND THE OTHER 15 MILES SOUTHEAST MARYSVILLE NEAR
FRANKFORT.  THE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES
AN HOUR.

THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE WINDS THAT CAN CAUSE DAMAGE NEARLY AS
SEVERE AS THAT CAUSED BY TORNADOES.  IT IS WISE TO MOVE TO AN
UNDERGROUND TORNADO SHELTER AT ONCE.  PROTECT YOURSELF FROM THIS
STORM JUST AS YOU WOULD FROM A TORNADO.

 KISNER

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 6, 2:42 AM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

KSZ007-008-010-011-020900-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
241 AM CDT WED JUN 6 1990

AT 235 AM THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING HAD DEVELOPED RAPIDLY NEAR THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA BORDER FROM NEAR
ALMA NEBRASKA TO 20 MILES WEST OF RED CLOUD NEBRASKA.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS
WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS FROM
NEAR TOPEKA TO MANHATTAN.  THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST
AT 25 MPH.

KLEYLA

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 3:23 AM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before

KSZ007-008-010-011-021000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
322 AM CDT WED JUN 6 1990

AT 315 AM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR RED CLOUD NEBRASKA.
THIS THUNDE

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 5:11 AM CDT, 59 minutes before

KSZ013-015-061100-

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

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9AM FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS...

THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO RUMBLE OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS. RADAR
AT 5 AM SHOWED A 20 MILE WIDE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 20 MILES
NORTHEAST OF MANHATTAN TO 40 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA TO 15 MILES NORTH
OF LEAVENWORTH.  THIS LINE THEN CONTINUED INTO NORTHWEST MISSOURI.
THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE BETWEEN HOLTON AND VALLEY FALLS OR ABOUT
40 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA.

NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED IN NORTHEAST KANSAS THIS MORNING.
HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL CONTINUE OVER JACKSON...
NORTHERN JEFFERSON AND ATCHISON COUNTIES UNTIL AROUND 6 AM.  THE STORMS
WILL MOVE INTO BROWN COUNTY BY 6 AM.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE
NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
KISNER

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 5:13 AM CDT, 57 minutes before

KSZ013-015-061100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO ISSUE DATE...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
510 AM CDT WED JUN 6 1990

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9AM FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS...

THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO RUMBLE OVER PARTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS. RADAR
AT 5 AM SHOWED A 20 MILE WIDE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 20 MILES
NORTHEAST OF MANHATTAN TO 40 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA TO 15 MILES NORTH
OF LEAVENWORTH.  THIS LINE THEN CONTINUED INTO NORTHWEST MISSOURI.
THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE BETWEEN HOLTON AND VALLEY FALLS OR ABOUT
40 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA.

NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED IN NORTHEAST KANSAS THIS MORNING.
HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL CONTINUE OVER JACKSON...
NORTHERN JEFFERSON AND ATCHISON COUNTIES UNTIL AROUND 6 AM.  THE STORMS
WILL MOVE INTO BROWN COUNTY BY 6 AM.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE
NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
KISNER

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 5:52 AM CDT, 18 minutes before

KSZ013-015-061145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
551 AM CDT WED JUN 6 1990

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9AM FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS...

AT AROUND 5:35 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
FROM NEAR HORTON ABOUT 50 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA...ACROSS ATCHINSON...
ABOUT 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF TOPEKA...THEN ON IN THE NORTHWEST MISSOURI.
THE AREA WAS ABOUT 25 MILES WIDE AND MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT
30 MILES AN HOUR.

QUARTER-INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED BY THE SHERRIFF OF BROWN COUNTY
SHORTLY AFTER 530 THIS MORNING.

LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THE STORMS IN THIS BAND AS
THE MOVED TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR.  THESE STORMS
SHOULD MOVE AROSS THE HORTON AND TROY AREAS...ABOUT 60 MILES NORTH OF
TOPEKA FROM AROUND 6 AM TO 630 AM.

ANOTHER AREA OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE WEST OF
MARYSVILLE IN MARSHALL COUNTY.  GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND HEAVdY RAINS
ARE LIKELY IN THE MARYSVILLE AREA BETWEEN 6 AM AND 7 AM THIS MORNING.

PERSONS IN MARSHALL COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE
WEATHER.

FRANTZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 3:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Washington	65 min
Jun 6, 4:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Smith	43 min
Jun 6, 5:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Washington	54 min
Jun 6, 6:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Nemaha	31 min
Jun 6, 7:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jefferson	38 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.