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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Topeka, KS

June 8, 1990Brown County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1990, 5:23 PM CDT for Brown County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1990, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1990, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
37 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, 10.4 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.

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 082225
SVRTOP
KSC013-082300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
523 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTHEAST KANSAS
          ...EASTERN BROWN
 
AT 516 GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED BY THE BROWN COUNTY SHERIFF
JUST NORTHEAST OF HIAWATHA.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

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, 12:03 PM CDT, 5 hours 20 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, 4 hours 16 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
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 3:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
KSZ013>016-082100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
305 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BROWN COUNTY EXPIRED AT 3PM CDT AND
WILL NOT BE EXTENDED. NO SEVERE STORM REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED SINCE
230PM. THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER EASTERN BROWN COUNTY AROUND 50 MILES
NORTH OF TOPEKA BUT THEY WERE WEAKENING AS THEY MOVED EAST AROUND 40 MPH.

A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR NORTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 8PM CDT. THUNDERSTORMS
COULD DEVELOP RAPIDLY WITHIN THE WATCH AREA AND CITIZENS SHOULD BE ALERT
TO WEATHER CHANGES AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE QUICKLY TO A PLACE OF SAFETY
SHOULD THUNDERSTORMS THREATEN.

KAYS
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 3:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
KSZ013>016-082200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
355 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990

A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR NORTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 8PM CDT. NO
THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTHEAST OR EASTCENTRAL KANSAS AT 350PM CDT.

HOWEVER THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS VERY UNSTABLE AND THUNDERSTORMS COULD
DEVELOP RAPIDLY. CITIZENS SHOULD BE ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO
A PLACE OF SAFETY SHOULD THUNDERSTORMS THREATEN.

KAYS

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, 1:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPNemaha61 min
Jun 8, 2:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBrown33 min
Jun 8, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBrown40 min
Jun 8, 6:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCoffey, Lyon, Osage55 min
Jun 8, 6:51 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPLyon39 min

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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.