Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 48, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 1991, 2:31 PM CDT for Cloud County, Kansas. It was in force for 14 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 1991, 2:31 PM CDT (19:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1991, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cloud County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 3284 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCNK 011932 TORCNK KSC029-011945- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 231 PM CDT SAT JUN 1 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CONCORDIA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...EASTERN CLOUD COUNTY AT 229 PM FUNNEL CLOUD WAS JUST SOUTHEAST OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN CONCORDIA MOVING MORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS FUNNEL WAS MOVING TOWARD CLYDE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM TAKE COVER NOW!! THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE... GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDIER BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A STAIRWELL OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. KLEYLA
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
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 10:45 AM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-011630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1044 AM CDT SAT JUN 1 1991 AT 1040 AM RADAR SHOWED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTH OF GREAT BEND NEAR ST. JOHN MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM MAY CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...STRONG WINDS ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE STORM SHOULD MOVE INTO THE ELLINWOOD AREA BY 1115 AM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA7 TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY!! KLEYLA
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 11:15 AM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
KSZ007-008-010-011-011700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 1114 AM CDT SAT JUN 1 1991 THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING RAPIDY ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. AT 1110 AM CDT AN AREA 20 MILES WIDE WAS FROM 20 MLIES SOUTH OF GREAT BEND TO GREAT BEND TO 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAYS NEAR NATOMA. OTHER THUNERSTORMS WERE 30 MILES WEST OF SALINA NEAR ELLSWORTH..NEAR OSBORNE AND FROM SALINA NORTHEAT TO CLAY CENTER. HEAVY RAIN..HAIL..GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP MOST ANYPLACE ACROS CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS. LLS
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 1:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
KSZ013>016-011930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 130 PM CDT SAT JUN 1 1991 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 464 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8PM CDT FOR THAT PART OF NORTHEAST KANSAS GENERALLY NORTH OF LINE FROM OLATHE TO JUNCTION CITY. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE TOPEKA...LAWRENCE ...MANHATTAN...JUNCTION CITY...MARYSVILLE AND ATCHISON. AT 130PM...NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS... HOWEVER VERY STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WERE BETWEEN MANHATTAN AND CONCORDIA MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 40 MPH. THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS VERY UNSTABLE AND HUMID OVER ALL OF NORTHEAST KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON...THUS STORMS COULD FORM AND BECOME SEVERE RAPIDLY. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR LATER INFORMATION. AKULOW
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 2:21 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
KSZ013>016-012020-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
220 PM CDT SAT JUN 1 1991
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 464 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8PM CDT FOR
THAT PART OF NORTHEAST KANSAS GENERALLY NORTH OF LINE FROM OLATHE TO
JUNCTION CITY. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE TOPEKA...LAWRENCE
...MANHATTAN...JUNCTION CITY...MARYSVILLE AND ATCHISON.
AT 220PM...NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS...
HOWEVER VERY STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WERE LINING UP ACROSS CENTRAL
KANSAS FROM CONCORDIA TO JUST WEST OF SALINA. THIS LINE WAS HEADING
EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH COULD REACH FROM MARYSVILLE TO JUNCTION CITY BY
ABOUT 330PM TO 4PM.
STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR L{OCAL RADIO AND TV FOR LATER INFORMATION.
AKULOWThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 11:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Russell | 45 min |
| Jun 1, 11:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson | 54 min |
| Jun 1, 1:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Smith | 33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.