Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 12, 1991, 5:49 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Mitchell County, Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 min. 3 reports 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
- Apr 12, 1991, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 1991, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lincoln County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Ottawa County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Lincoln, KS | |
| Apr 12, 6:00 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Mitchell, KS | |
| Apr 12, 6:14 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Mitchell, 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 309 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 363 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 12, 12:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Apr 12, 1:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-121926- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 130 PM CDT FRI APR 12 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 125 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EAST OF A LINE FROM PHILLIPSBURG TO COLDWATER AND WEST OF A LINE FROM BELLEVILLE TO SALINA TO WICHITA... AT 125 PM CONCORDIA RADAR SHOWED RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS FROM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREAT BEND NEAR LARNED TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREAT BEND NEAR OTIS. THESE STOXRMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE NORTH AT 35 MPH. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER CENTRAL AND NORTH-CENTRAL KANSAS IS VERY UNSTABLE AND ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON. KLEYLA
Special weather statement, Apr 12, 1:56 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-122000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 155 PM CDT FRI APR 12 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 125 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EAST OF A LINE FROM PHILLIPSBURG TO COLDWATER AND WEST OF A LINE FROM BELLEVILLE TO SALINA TO WICHITA... AT 155 PM CONCORDIA RADAR SHOWED RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS FROM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREAT BEND NEAR LARNED TO 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREAT BEND NEAR GALATIA. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE NORTH AT 35 MPH. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER CENTRAL AND NORTH-CENTRAL KANSAS IS VERY UNSTABLE AND ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON. RK/LS
Special weather statement, Apr 12, 2:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-122030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 235 PM CDT FRI APR 12 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 125 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EAST OF A LINE FROM PHILLIPSBURG TO COLDWATER AND WEST OF A LINE FROM BELLEVILLE TO SALINA TO WICHITA... AT 235 PM CONCORDIA RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES WEST OF GREAT BEND TO JUST SOUTH OF RUSSELL. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE NORTH AT 35 MPH. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER CENTRAL AND NORTH-CENTRAL KANSAS IS VERY UNSTABLE AND ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON. LS
Special weather statement, Apr 12, 3:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-122100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 3XX PM CDT FRI APR 12 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 125 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EAST OF A LINE FROM PHILLIPSBURG TO COLDWATER AND WEST OF A LINE FROM BELLEVILLE TO SALINA TO WICHITA... AT 305 PM CONCORDIA RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS FROM GREAT BEND TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREAT BEND. AT 305 PM CDT THE GREAT BEND SHERIFF REPORTED PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL JUST SOUTHWEST OF GREAT BEND. OTHER SHOWERS WERE FROM JUST SOUTH OF CONCORDIA TO SALINA TO JUST NORTH OF MCPHERSON. ALL THE THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WER MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER CENTRAL AND NORTH-CENTRAL KANSAS IS VERY UNSTABLE AND ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON. LS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Smith | 30 min |
| Apr 11, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Smith | 15 min |
| Apr 11, 9:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Smith | 52 min |
| Apr 11, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Smith | 30 min |
| Apr 12, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Barton | 43 min |
| Apr 12, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Russell | 49 min |
| Apr 12, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lincoln | 41 min |
| Apr 12, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lincoln | 31 min |
| Apr 12, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osborne, Russell | 53 min |
| Apr 12, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lincoln | 33 min |
| Apr 12, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osborne | 50 min |
| Apr 12, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Russell | 51 min |
| Apr 12, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Barton | 45 min |
| Apr 12, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Mitchell | 44 min |
| Apr 12, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa | 54 min |
| Apr 12, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud | 33 min |
| Apr 12, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Republic, Washington | 51 min |
| Apr 12, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Russell | 46 min |
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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.