Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1995, 8:27 AM CDT for Douglas County, Franklin County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 1995, 8:27 AM CDT (13:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1995, 9:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 43 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 161327 SVRTOP KSC045-059-161415- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 827 AM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...SOUTHERN DOUGLAS COUNTY...NORTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY AT 825 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAWRENCE NEAR OVERBROOK. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE TOWNS OF GLOBE...OTTAWA...POMONA AND BALWDWIN CITY BY 900 AM. 3/4 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED IN CARBONDALE AT 820 AM AND GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT OVERBROOK AT 825 AM. 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. STAYB INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. WOYNICK &
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 23 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, 1 hour 4 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
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 8:25 AM CDT, 2 minutes before
KSZ055-161430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 825 AM CDT SUN APR 16 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES FOR NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY UNTIL 9 AM CDT... ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN SHAWNEE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED AND WILL NOT BE REISSUED... AT 825 AM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE TO THE SOUTH OF TOPEKA IN NORTHERN OSAGE COUNTY OVER CARBONDALE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 420 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH OVERBROOK BY 840 AM. PEOPLE IN CARBONDALE AND OVERBROOK SHOULD BE INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS.
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, 8:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 46 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.