Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1990, 2:27 PM CDT for Brown County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1990, 2:27 PM CDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1990, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brown 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KTOP 081929
SVRTOP
KSC013-082000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
227 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHEAST KANSAS
...BROWN
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BROWN COUNTY HAS BEEN EXTENDED
UNTIL 3PM CDT. INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS STRETCH OVER BROWN COUNTY AROUND
50 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA. MARBLE SIZE HAIL OR SLIGHTLY LARGER HAS BEEN
REPORTED FROM THE COMPLEX OF STORMS OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE
STRONGEST OF THESE STORMS WAS OVER BROWN COUNTY NEAR HORTON AND
HIAWATHA AT 125 PM CDT. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS FOR NEMAHA
JACKSON AND ATCHISON COUNTIES HAVE BEEN CANCELLED.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO HADVANCE WARNIWhat 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, 3 hours 40 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, 2 hours 24 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, 1 hour 20 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 | Atchison, Brown, Jackson | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 1:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 61 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1990Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.