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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Topeka, KS

June 21, 1991Osage County, Shawnee County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1991, 4:29 PM CDT for Osage County, Shawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 1991, 4:29 PM CDT (21:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1991, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 276 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1991-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 531 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 1991-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
531 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1191 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 1:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAtchison46 min
Jun 21, 2:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPWashington61 min
Jun 21, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJefferson35 min
Jun 21, 3:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPWashington26 min
Jun 21, 3:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Pottawatomie, Riley68 min
Jun 21, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPShawnee20 min
Jun 21, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Osage, Shawnee38 min
Jun 21, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMcPherson48 min
Jun 21, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPWabaunsee48 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.