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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 2:56 PM CDT for Cloud County, Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 2:56 PM CDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cloud County, KS, Republic County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -489 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 440 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 496 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOP 041957 RRA SVRTOP KSC029-157-042045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 256 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHERN CLOUD COUNTY...REPUBLIC COUNTY AT 250PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL EFFECT JAMESTOWN YUMA CONCORDIA NORWAY KACKLEY TELMO WAYNE AGENDA CUBA BELLEVILLE MUNDEN AND NARKA BY 345PM. GUSTY WINDS TO 70 MPH AND HAIL TO ONE INCH HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. 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. KAYS
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, Jul 4, 11:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
KSZ008>012-020>024-026-034>040-054>056-058>059-050400- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1148 AM CDT MON JULY 3 1995 STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BY AROUND 2 PM OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS AND PERSIST INTO THE EVENING HOURS OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS. AREAS GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A HIAWATHA TO MANHATTAN LINE APPEAR TO HAVE THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE THE MAIN CONCERN BUT A FEW TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. SYNOPSIS: VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR REMAINS IN PLACE OVER EASTERN KANSAS AS A SLOW MOVING LOW PRESSURE MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. THE LOW COMBINED WITH A WEATHER DISTURBANCE ALOFT WILL TRIGGER THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN KANSAS...SOME LIKELY SEVERE. FRANTZ
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, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 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, 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 |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.