Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1990, 6:38 AM CDT for Brown County, Nemaha County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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, 6:38 AM CDT (11:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1990, 7:09 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brown County, KS, Nemaha 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, 6:45 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Nemaha, 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTDA 061141 COR SVRTOP KSC013-131-061300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION TO CODING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 638 AM CDT WED JUN 6 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDER- STORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY... IN NORTHEAST KANSAS... BROWN NEMAHA AT 635 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARYSVILLE ON THE MARSHALL-NEMAHA COUNTY BORDER. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND 50 MILE AN HOUR WINDS WERE REPORTED NORTH OF FRANKFORT AT 630 AM WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM DANGEROUS WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. RPM
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 56 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, 3 hours 15 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, 1 hour 27 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, 1 hour 25 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, 46 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, 6:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 7:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 38 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.