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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Topeka, KS

April 10, 1995Lyon County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 1995, 1:39 AM CDT for Lyon County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 10, 1995, 1:39 AM CDT (06:39 UTC)
Expired
Apr 10, 1995, 2:15 AM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lyon County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 57 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1995-04-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1995-04-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 428 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
428 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
531 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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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

Local storm report, Apr 9, 11:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1149 PM CST SUN APR 9 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....LOCATION.....     STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...

2254 PM    RICHMOND                 KS    0.8T0 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
04/09/95   FRANKLIN                       REPORTED BY SHERIFF

WOYNICK
Local storm report, Apr 10, 12:49 AM CDT, 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1149 PM CST SUN APR 9 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....LOCATION.....     STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...

2254 PM    RICHMOND                 KS    0.80 INCH DIAMETER HAIL
04/09/95   FRANKLIN                       REPORTED BY SHERIFF

WOYNICK

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 9, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAnderson, Franklin49 min
Apr 10, 12:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMorris32 min
Apr 10, 1:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson27 min
Apr 10, 1:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Dickinson25 min
Apr 10, 1:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay33 min
Apr 10, 2:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMorris, Wabaunsee36 min
Apr 10, 2:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee44 min
Apr 10, 3:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson37 min
Apr 10, 3:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Washington32 min
Apr 10, 3:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBrown, Nemaha30 min
Apr 10, 3:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson, Pottawatomie36 min
Apr 10, 4:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBrown34 min
Apr 10, 4:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Riley25 min
Apr 10, 5:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMorris, Wabaunsee12 min
Apr 10, 6:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMorris34 min
Apr 10, 8:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPRiley35 min
Apr 10, 8:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPRiley38 min
Apr 10, 8:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPGeary17 min
Apr 10, 9:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Pottawatomie37 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.