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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Topeka, KS

June 14, 1991Geary County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1991, 9:21 PM CDT for Geary County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 1991, 9:21 PM CDT (02:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1991, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Geary County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOVN), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 260 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1991-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3690 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1991-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 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
3690 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1731 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 14, 4:33 PM CDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-142225-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
432 PM CDT FRI JUN 14 1991

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 526 IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND
NORTH-CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM...

AT 430 PM RADAR SHOWED RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR SALINA
TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF SALINA NEAR MCPHERSON.  ANOTHER ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM
HAD ALSO DEVELOPED RAPIDLY 10 MILES NORTH OF HAYS.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS
MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS HAD NOT BEEN DETERMINED.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!!

KLEYLA
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 5:06 PM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-142300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
505 PM CDT FRI JUN 14 1991

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 526 IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF CENTRAL AND
NORTH-CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM...

AT 500 PM RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS IN A 15 MILE
MILE WIDE BAND EXTENDING FROM 40 MILES SOUTHEAST AT CONCORDIA NEAR
WAKEFIELD SOUTHWEST TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS
MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS,HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS
THEY MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG NEAR
GAYLORD TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF PHILLIPSBURG NEAR STOCKTON AND ARE CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN, HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE EAST AT
15 MPH. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!!!

SW
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 5:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
KSZ006>017-150000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
546 PM CDT FRI JUN 14 1991

AT 530 PM VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER THE WESTERN
PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES
NORTHWEST OF MANHATTAN AND 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF JUNCTION CITY. THESE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND
COULD PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...INTENSE LIGHTNING AND
HAIL AS THEY MOVE TO ACROSS TUTTLE CREEK LAKE AND VERY NEAR THE
MANHATTAN AREA BY 630 PM.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS TO THE SOUTHWEST OF JUNCTION CITY COULD MOVE
INTO JUCTION CITY AREA BY 630 PM.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN INCREASING IN INTENSIyTY AND SHOULD
THREATENING APPROACH BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.

CRANDALL
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 6:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
KSC117-149-161-150045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
647 PM CDT FRI JUN 14 1991

A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM THIS FRIDAY EVENING FOR
WESTERN POTTAWATOMIE AND RILEY COUNTIES. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
FOR SOUTHERN MARSHALL AND NORTHWEST POTTAWATOMIE COUNTIES EXPIRED AT
645 PM.

AT 635 PM RILEY COUNTY SPOTTERS HAD OBSERVED FUNNELS CLOUD ALOFT ABOUT
10 TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF MANHATTEN. THESE FUNNELS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH
THUNDERSTORMS IN RILEY AND WESTERN POTTAWATOMIE COUNTIES.

THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH BUT
SEEM TO BE REDEVELOPING FURTHER SOUTH IN RILEY COUNTY.  PERSONS IN ALL
OF RILEY AND ADJACENT COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR SEVERE WEATHER DURING
THE EARLY EVENING HOURS.

KML

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPPottawatomie48 min
Jun 14, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMorris31 min
Jun 14, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMorris32 min
Jun 14, 8:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMcPherson35 min
Jun 14, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay43 min
Jun 14, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPRiley46 min
Jun 15, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJefferson35 min
Jun 15, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas56 min
Jun 15, 3:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas52 min
Jun 15, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPDouglas35 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.