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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Topeka, KS

June 8, 1990Nemaha County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1990, 1:29 PM CDT for Nemaha 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

County Nemaha 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 93 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 1990-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1373 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1990-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 257 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTOP 081831
SVRTOP
KSC005-013-085-131-081930-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
129 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN NORTHEAST KANSAS
          ...ATCHISON...BROWN...NORTHEASTERN JACKSON...NEMAHA
 
AT 120 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AROUND 30 MILES AT
120 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AROUND 30 MILES NORTH
OF TOPEKA AND 45 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA. THESE STORMS WERE NEAR THE
CITIES OF SENECA AND JUST NORTH OF HOLTON. THE TOWNS OF HIAWATHA AND
HORTON ARE IN THE PATHS OF THESE STORMS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING
EAST AROUND 25 MPH.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST F_LOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY... SO
DON'T DRIVE ONTO WATER-COVERED ROADS.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 7:12 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPLyon48 min
Jun 7, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Shawnee34 min
Jun 7, 7:31 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPOsage29 min
Jun 7, 7:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPShawnee69 min
Jun 7, 8:01 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPLyon, Osage59 min
Jun 7, 8:13 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPShawnee47 min
Jun 7, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPShawnee45 min
Jun 7, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson, Jefferson39 min
Jun 7, 8:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon, Osage65 min
Jun 7, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAtchison57 min
Jun 7, 9:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPLyon, Osage5 hr
Jun 7, 9:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPDouglas, Shawnee5 hr
Jun 7, 9:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCoffey44 min
Jun 8, 1:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAtchison, Brown, Jackson61 min
Jun 8, 2:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBrown33 min
Jun 8, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBrown40 min
Jun 8, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBrown37 min
Jun 8, 6:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCoffey, Lyon, Osage55 min
Jun 8, 6:51 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPLyon39 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.