Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 1:35 AM CDT for Jefferson County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 1:35 AM CDT (06:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 2887 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1205 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KTOP 040636 RRA SVRTOP KSC013-085-087-040700- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 135 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST KANSAS ...EASTERN BROWN COUNTY...EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY ...NORTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY AT 130 AM...DOPPLER RADAR AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO INDICATE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN BROWN...EASTERN JACKSON AND NORTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTIES. THE SEVERE STORMS EXTENDED FROM 15 MILES EAST OF HIAWATHA TO 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HIAWATHA NEAR HOLTON. STRONG WINDS WERE MOVING INTO NORTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY. THE STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE TO THREATEN THE COMMUNITIES IN THE WARNED AREA THROUGH 200 AM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY... SO DON'T DRIVE ONTO WATER-COVERED ROADS. WOYNICK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson | 36 min |
| Jul 3, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson | 30 min |
| Jul 3, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 37 min |
| Jul 3, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 33 min |
| Jul 3, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa, Republic | 47 min |
| Jul 3, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 20 min |
| Jul 3, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Washington | 39 min |
| Jul 3, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Pottawatomie | 45 min |
| Jul 3, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Washington | 33 min |
| Jul 4, 12:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Marshall, Riley | 36 min |
| Jul 4, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 36 min |
| Jul 4, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson | 26 min |
| Jul 4, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 28 min |
| Jul 4, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson | 25 min |
| Jul 4, 1:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 33 min |
| Jul 4, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Riley | 35 min |
| Jul 4, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 35 min |
| Jul 4, 2:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 31 min |
| Jul 4, 2:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary | 31 min |
| Jul 4, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 37 min |
| Jul 4, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee | 45 min |
| Jul 4, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 41 min |
| Jul 4, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson | 42 min |
| Jul 4, 2:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown | 39 min |
| Jul 4, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson | 39 min |
| Jul 4, 3:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 41 min |
| Jul 4, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown | 20 min |
| Jul 4, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson | 38 min |
| Jul 4, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 44 min |
| Jul 4, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic, Washington | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson | 17 min |
| Jul 4, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 46 min |
| Jul 4, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 36 min |
| Jul 4, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey | 21 min |
| Jul 4, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 34 min |
| Jul 4, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 21 min |
| Jul 4, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 28 min |
| Jul 4, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Franklin | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 32 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.