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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1990, 8:01 PM CDT for Lyon County, Osage County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1990, 8:01 PM CDT (01:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1990, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lyon County, KS, Osage 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 3393 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1162 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.2
- Supercell composite
- -1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KTOP 080102
TORTOP
KSC111-139-080200-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
801 PM CDT THU JUN 7 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
...LYON...OSAGE
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAVE PRODUCED TORNADOES CONTINUES
TO DEVELOP NE STORMS. SEVERAL REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN
RECEIVED IN THE EMPORIA AREA BUT NO TORNADOES REMAINED ON THE GROUND
AT 755 PM CDT.
PLEASE GO TO A SAFE SHELTER NOW!!!!
THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE.
OTHERWISE... GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A
STURDIER BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
FORTUNEThe 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, 8:13 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, 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 |
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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.