Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1995, 8:14 AM CDT for Osage County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 1995, 8:14 AM CDT (13:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1995, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Osage County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 39 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 161316 COR SVRTOP KSC139-161400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED FOR TIME FIRST SENTENCE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 814 AM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY AT 812 AM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTH OF TOPEKA NEAR BURLINGAME. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE CARBONDALE AND OVERBROOK AREAS BY 845 AM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM DANGEROUS WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. WOYNI CK &
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, 1 hour 10 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, 51 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, 7:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage, Shawnee | 49 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
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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.