Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1990, 1:29 PM CDT for Atchison County, Brown County, Jackson County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1990, 1:29 PM CDT (18:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1990, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Jackson 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 1373 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -248 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1115 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
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 8, 10:47 AM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-081630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1045 AM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990 AT 1045 AM CONCORDIA RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF TOPEKA NEAR VALLEY FALLS AND 50 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA NEAR FAIRVIEW. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. A FEW LIGHT SHOWERS WERE IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS 50 MILES WEST OF CONCORDIA NEAR SMITH CENTER AND OSBORNE. THESE SHOWERS WERE ALSO MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. MP
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 12:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
KSZ013>016-081800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1202 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990 AT 1155AM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS. VERY HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL WERE INDICATED AROUND 20 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA NEAR VALLEY FALLS AND AROUND 20 MILES NORTH OF LAWRENCE NORTHEAST OF PERRY RESERVOIR. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGER AREA OF DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS THAT STRETCHED FROM AROUND 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF TOPEKA NORTH OF ROSSVILLE THROUGH NORTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY NORTH OF PERRY RESERVOIR THEN NORTHEAST INTO NORTHWEST MISSOURI. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SHIFTING EAST AROUND 40 MPH. FURTHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE DEVELOPING OVERg NORTHEAST KANSAS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. KAYS
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 1:07 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-081900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 105 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990 .THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPOING RAPIDLY IN NORTHEAST KANSAS... AT 105 PM CONCORDIA RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARYSVILLE AND 5 TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOLTON. THESE THUNDERSTORM ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH AND LIKELY CONTAIN BRIEF BUT HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL. THESE STORMS COULD MOVE TO THE SENECA AND HORTON AREAS BY 2 PM. MP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 7:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon | 48 min |
| Jun 7, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Shawnee | 34 min |
| Jun 7, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Osage | 29 min |
| Jun 7, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 69 min |
| Jun 7, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 59 min |
| Jun 7, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 47 min |
| Jun 7, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 45 min |
| Jun 7, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson | 39 min |
| Jun 7, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 65 min |
| Jun 7, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Atchison | 57 min |
| Jun 7, 9:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 5 hr |
| Jun 7, 9:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas, Shawnee | 5 hr |
| Jun 7, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey | 44 min |
| Jun 8, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 33 min |
| Jun 8, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 40 min |
| Jun 8, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 37 min |
| Jun 8, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon | 39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.