Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 3:46 PM CDT for Coffey County, Lyon County, Osage County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 3:46 PM CDT (20:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coffey County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Osage County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 65 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 042047 RRA SVRTOP KSC031-111-139-042130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 346 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHWESTERN COFFEY COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN LYON COUNTY ...OSAGE COUNTY AT 340PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AROUND 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EMPORIA. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH AND WILL EFFECT NEOSHO RAPIDS READING LEBO AND MELVERN RESERVOIR THROUGH 430PM. LARGE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. STRONG WINDS OVER 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. BOATERS ON THE MELVERN RESERVOIR SHOULD HEAD FOR SHORE IMMEDIATELY. 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.
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 56 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, 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, 3:58 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.