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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Topeka, KS

May 24, 1990McPherson County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 1990, 6:23 PM CDT for McPherson County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 1990, 6:23 PM CDT (23:23 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1990, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County McPherson 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 209 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1990-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1990-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 279 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
279 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
286 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCNK 242323
TORCNK
KSC113-250015-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
623 PM CDT THU MAY 24 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
      MCPHERSON

AT 620 PM CDT A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SALINA
OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF MCRPHERSON.  THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING
EAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL BE JUST NORTH OF MCPHERSON BY 635 PM CDT.

THIS TORNADO WAS ON THE GROUND AND CAUSING DAMAGE.  ALL PEOPLE
NEAR THIS DANGEROUS STORM SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.  FIND
SHELTER BELOW GROUND LEVEL...IF AT A[LL POSSIBLE.

URBAN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBarton40 min
May 24, 5:07 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPBarton53 min
May 24, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPEllsworth65 min
May 24, 5:16 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPEllsworth44 min
May 24, 5:53 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMcPherson, Rice52 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.