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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Topeka, KS

June 8, 1990Lyon County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1990, 6:51 PM CDT for Lyon County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1990, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1990, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Lyon County, KS

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 8, 7:26 PM CDTTornado F0Lyon, KS

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 75 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTOP 082352
TORTOP
KSC111-090030-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
651 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...
   LYON ...PARTICULARLY THE CITY OF EMPORIA

AT 648 PM SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 3 TO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF EMPORIA. BASEBALL HAIL WAS ALSO REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.

TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.

RPM

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 1:07 PM CDT, 5 hours 44 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, 3 hours 44 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, 2 hours 57 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
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 6:12 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
KSZ013>016-090000-

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

...A TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 414 IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST AND
EAST CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 8 PM...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 422 IS IN EFFECT
FOR THE REMAINDER OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM...

AT 6 PM CDT 20 MILE WIDE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 20
MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF TOPEKA NEAR OSAGE CITY...TO 25 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF EMPORIA...JUST SOUTHWEST OF BURLINGTON. THESE STORMS WERE OVER
MELVERN AND JOHN REDMOND RESERVOURS. PERSONS IN THE VICINITY OF THESE
STORMS CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING
..AND HAIL.

THESE STORMS WERE MOEVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL
AFFECT OTTAWA AND GARNETT BETWEEN 630 PM AND 730 PM THIS EVENING.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF TOPEKA...TO 15
MILES NORTHWEST OF ST JOSEPH MISSOURI.

MCNULTY

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, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBrown37 min
Jun 8, 6:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCoffey, Lyon, Osage55 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.