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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1990, 7:29 PM CDT for Lyon County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1990, 7:29 PM CDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1990, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 5742 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 826 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 6.7
- Supercell composite
- 28.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KTOP 090033
TORTOP
KSC111-090115-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
729 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
...LYON
AT 726 PM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND 4 MILES SOUTH OF
EMPORIA. MOVMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
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.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY... SO
DON'T DRIVE ONTO WATER-COVERED ROADS.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, 3:07 PM CDT, 4 hours 22 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, 3 hours 35 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, 1 hour 17 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Shawnee | 47 min |
| Jun 8, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Osage | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 28 min |
| Jun 9, 1:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Coffey | 4 hr |
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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.