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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1991, 7:31 PM CDT for Lyon County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 1991, 7:31 PM CDT (00:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1991, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lyon County, KS
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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 409 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 485 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 17.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Apr 26, 5:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-262345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 545 PM CDT FRI APR 26 1991 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PART OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 8 PM CDT. AT 545 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING BRIEF HAVRY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS.. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL WERE NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA NEAR WASHINGTON AND NEAR NARKA AND MAHASKA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDE&RSTROMS WAS FROM WICHITA TO COUNCIL GROVE TO NORTHWEST OF TOPEKA.
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 6:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
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KSZ007-008-010-011-270030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECT TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 628 PM CDT FRI APR 26 1991 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PART OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 8 PM CDT. AT 627 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS.. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL WERE NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA NEAR WASHINGTON AND NEAR HADDAM EXTENDING NORTHWARD INTO NEBRASKA NORTH OF FAIRBURY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. HIGH WINDS OF 70 TO 80 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN THE CITY OF LINCOLN AND AREAS SOUTH. THESE WINDS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE PASSAGE OF A FRONT AND NOT WITH THUNDERSTORMS. OTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR HIAWATHA TO COUNCIL GROVE TO JUST NORTH OF WICHITA. MRU
Local storm report, Apr 26, 6:34 PM CDT, 57 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
633 PM CDT FRI APR 26 1991
STORM REPORTS FOR FRIDAY APRIL 26...ALL TIMES CDT
1:35 PM GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 3 MILES SOUTH WEST OF MINNEAPOLIS..OTTAWA
COUNTY
1:43 PM GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN MINNEAPOLIS..OTTAWA COUNTY
1:45 PM GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 2 NORTH AND 3 WEST OF MINNEAPOLIS..OTTAWA
COUNTY
2 PM GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 3 MILES EAST OF DELPHOS..OTTAWA COUNTY.
2:55 PM GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL COVER THE GROUND AT CLYDE..CLOUD COUNTY.
2:59 PM GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT CLIFTON..WASHINGTON COUNTY.
3:14 PM GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT BRANTFORD..WASHINGTON COUNTY.
3:30 PM GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 21/2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WASHINGTON..
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
4:01 PM GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT NARKA..REPUBLIC COUNTY.
4:45 PM 3/4 INCH HAIL WEST OF MOUNDRIDGE..MCPHERSON COUNTY.
4:53 PM 3/4 INCH HAIL ONE MILE SOUTHEAST OF MOUNDRIDGE..MCPHERSON CO.
5:05 PM HIGH WINDS DAMAGED FARM BUILDINGS 13 MILES SOUTH OF RUSSELL
NO THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA..RUSSELL COUNTY.
LSSpecial weather statement, Apr 26, 7:00 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-270100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 700 PM CDT FRI APR 26 1991 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PART OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 8 P
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 37 min |
| Apr 26, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 32 min |
| Apr 26, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 69 min |
| Apr 26, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Shawnee | 52 min |
| Apr 26, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 34 min |
| Apr 26, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 62 min |
| Apr 26, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Atchison, Jefferson | 62 min |
| Apr 26, 8:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jefferson, Shawnee | 24 min |
| Apr 26, 9:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 43 min |
| Apr 26, 9:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Atchison | 40 min |
| Apr 26, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 66 min |
| Apr 26, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Shawnee | 54 min |
| Apr 26, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Atchison, Jefferson | 60 min |
| Apr 26, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin, Osage | 61 min |
| Apr 26, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Shawnee | 27 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.