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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Topeka, KS

April 16, 1995Franklin County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1995, 5:24 PM CDT for Franklin County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 16, 1995, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 1995, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Franklin County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTOP 162224
SVRTOP
KSC059-162315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
524 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...FRANKLIN COUNTY
 
AT 522 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FROM OTTAWA TO
15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OTTAWA...NEAR WILLIAMSBURG.
 
THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
 
THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH OTTAWA...WILLIAMSBURG...LANE AND RICHMOND
BY 6 PM.
 
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

Local storm report, Apr 16, 2:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
245 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995

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

0634          WHITE CITY              KS       1.25 INCH HAIL
04/16/95      MORRIS

0640          ELMO                    KS       1.75 INCH HAIL
04/10/95      DICKINSON

0655          ALTA VIST               KS        .75 INCH HAIL
04/16/95      WABAUNSEE

0820          CARBONDALE              KS        .75 INCH HAIL
04/16/95      OSAGE

0825          OVERBROOK               KS       1.75 INCH HAIL
04/16/95      OSAGE

0834          6 EAST OF OVERBROOK     KS       1.75 INCH HAIL
04/16/95      OSAGE                            60 MPH WIND

0837          JUNCTION OF SHAWNEE     KS       1.75 INCH HAIL
04/16/95      DOUGLAS AND OSAGE CO. LINE       80 MPH WIND/WINDOWS
                                               BLOWN OUT OF RESIDENCE.
                                               GARAGE SHIFTED ON
                                               FOUNDATION.

0838          7 EAST OF OVERBROOK     KS       1.25 INCH HAIL
04/16/95      OSAGE

0846          3 NORTH OF OTTAWA     .  KS       1.75 INCH HAIL
04/16/95      FRANKLIN

DW

Special weather statement, Apr 16, 2:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before

KSZ025-057-060-162030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
250 PM CDT SUN APR 16 1995

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 196 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART
OF KANSAS.  THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES...

...NORTHEAST...
ATCHISON        LEAVENWORTH     WYANDOTTE

...EAST CENTRAL...
JOHNSON         LINN            MIAMI

THE FOLLOWING CITIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATClH...

ATCHISON        KANSAS CITY     LEAVENWORTH     OLATHE

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, 8:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Franklin	48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.