Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1995, 7:26 AM CDT for Osage County, Shawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 1995, 7:26 AM CDT (12:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1995, 8:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 995 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 426 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOP 161231 COR SVRTOP KSC139-177-161315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED...CORRECTED COUNTIES... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 726 AM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY...SOUTHERN SHAWNEE COUNTY AT 725 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOPEKA...NEAR DOVER. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE THROUGH DOVER BY 735 AM...AUBURN BY 750 AM AND CARBONDALE BY 805 AM. THIS WARNING DOES NOT INCLUDE THE CITY OF TOPEKA. THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED EARLIER FOR WABAUNSEE COUNTY. 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. WALAWENDER
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, Apr 16, 7:04 AM CDT, 22 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-031>033-046>053-065-161300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 705 AM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 195 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF KANSAS. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...NORTH CENTRAL... JEWELL MITCHELL OSBORNE PHILLIPS ROOKS SMITH ...CENTRAL... BARTON ELLIS ELLSWORTH LINCOLN MARION MCPHERSON RICE RUSH RUSSELL SALINE ...EAST CENTRAL... CHASE ...SOUTH CENTRAL... PAWNEE THE FOLLOWING CITIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH... GREAT BEND HAYS V LARNED MCPHERSON PHILLIPSBURG RUSSELL SALINA BILLS
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 7:23 AM CDT, 3 minutes before
KSZ008-009-020-021-034-035-161330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 721 AM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 195 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF KANSAS. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...NORTH CENTRAL... CLAY CLOUD OTTAWA REPUBLIC WASHINGTON ...CENTRAL... DICKINSON THE FOLLOWING CITIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH... ABILINE CLAY CENTER CONCORDIA ALTHOUGH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...THE THREAT OF SEVERS STORMS APPEARS TO HAVE PASSED. BILLS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 5:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 43 min |
| Apr 16, 6:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 6:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 44 min |
| Apr 16, 8:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 8:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 51 min |
| Apr 16, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas | 36 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.