Tornado Warning 4, NWS Topeka, KS

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
420 PM CST TUE MAR 26 1991

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 63 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CST FOR MOST OF CENTRAL
KANSAS...

AT 420 PM...NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE WERE LOCATED ACROSS
SOUTHERN AND NORTHEASTERN KANSAS. A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM WAS
LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREAT BEND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR GREAT BEND BY 5PM. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY
RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM NEAR TOPEKA TO EMPORIA.

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT...SOME POSSIBLY SEVERE...IS STILL
POSSIBLE OVER THOSE PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS COVERED BY THE WATCH AREA.

JF

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
448 PM CST TUE MAR 26 1991

...TONADOES WATCHES 63 AND 64 REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST
AND EAST CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 10PM THIS EVENING...

GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOPEKA IN
NORTHWEST OSAGE COUNTY AT 448PM.  THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THE GOLF
BALL SIZE HAIL WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40MPH AND WILL THREATEN
AUBURN...TOPEKA AND BURLINGGAME BY 5PM.

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
5 PM CST TUE MAR 26 1991

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 63 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CST FOR MOST OF CENTRAL
KANSAS...

AT 5 PM CST A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WAS 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREAT BEND NEAR PAWNEE ROCK.
THE STORN WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL BE IN THE GREAT BEND
AREA BY 515 PM CST.  OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
GREAT BEND AND WILL MOVE TO 10 MILES WEST OF LYONS BY 5:15 PM CST.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE
INTO CENTRAL KANSAS INTO THE EVENING HOURS.

PERSONS IN CENTRAL KANSAS SHOUL+D BE ALERT FOR SEVERE WEATHER.
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LOCAL STORM REPORT...INITIAL AND PRELIMINARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
539 PM CST TUE MAR 26 1991

COUNTY      LOCATION    TIME-CST   REPORT
OSAGE       OVERBROOK   346PM      PEA SIZE TO ONE HALF INCH HAIL
LYON        OLPE        405PM      MARBLE HAIL
LYON        SOUTH OF EMPORIA 416PM  1 1/4 INCH HAIL
LYON        EMP AIRPORT 406PM      WIND TO 70 MPH, ONE INCH HAIL
                                     MANY WINDOWS BLOWN OUT/CRACKED
WABUANSEE   6 S BURLINGAME 418PM    MARBLE HAIL
DOUGLAS     LAWRENCE/KU  430PM     GOLF BALL HAIL, WIND TO 57 MPH
COFFEY      LEBO         435PM     PEA SIZE HAIL
SHAWNEE     6 SE TOP     440PM     MARBLE HAIL
OSAGE       CARBONDALE   443PM     GOLF BALL HAIL COVERING THE GROUND
OSAGE       4 S AUBURN   448PM     ONE INCH HAIL
OSAGE       BURLINGAME   453PM     BASEBALL SIZE HAIL, WINDOWS BLOWN OUT
DOUGLAS     LONE STAR LAKE 4555PM  BASEBALL SIZE HAIL
OSAGE       3-4 S AUBURN  458PM    GOLFBALL HAIL
SHAWNEE     LAKE SHAWNEE  500PM    3/4 INCH HAIL
SHAWNEE     TOPEKA     513PM     3/4 INCH HAIL
FRANKLIN    WILLIAMBURG 519PM    GOLFBALL HAIL
LYON        MILLER     435PM     GOLFBALL HAIL ( LATE REPORT)

...PRELIMINARY REPORTS...MORE TO FOLLOW LATER TONIGHT

AKULOW

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
601 PM CST TUE MAR 26 1991

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS FOR JEFFERSON AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES HAVE
BEEN CANCELLED.

HOWEVER... A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES ACROSS MOST OF NORTHEAST AND
EAST-CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 10PM. PEOPLE IN NORTHEAST AND EAST-CENTRAL
KANSAS SHOULD CONTINUE TO WATCH WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS AND LISTEN FOR
LATER STATEMENTS CONSIDERING THIS TORNADO WATCH.

AT 6PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS FROM ABOUT 20 MILES
NORTHEAST OF TOPEKA IN EASTERN ATCHISON COUNTY TO ABOUT 20 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF LAWRENCE NEAR PAOLA.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT
40 MPH. PEOPLE IN ATCHISON CAN EXPECT SMMALL HAIL, HEAVY RAIN, AND
STRONG GUSTY WINDS BY 6:30PM.

MAY

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
648 PM CST TUE MAR 26 1991

WEATHER CONDITIONS HAD SETTLED DOWN OVER NORTHEAST AT EARLY EVENING.
AND NO SEVERE WEATHER WARNINGS WERE IN EFFECT AT 645PM. HOWEVER A
TORNADO WATCH DOES CONTINUE OVER MOST OF THE AREA UNTIL 10PM.

AT 645PM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE ATCHISON VICINITY
OR ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF TOPEKA. THE RAIN WAS MOVING EAST AT
25 TO 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO MISSOURI BY 7PM.

THE POTENTIAL REMAINS HIGH FOR REDEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS...AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER CENTRAL
KANSAS...THESE COULD MOVE INTO THE LOCAL AREA AROUND 9 OR 10 PM.

STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR LATER INFORMATION.

AKULOW