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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Topeka, KS

May 13, 1995Cloud County, Republic County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1995, 1:49 AM CDT for Cloud County, Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 1995, 1:49 AM CDT (06:49 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 1995, 2:15 AM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cloud County, KS, Republic County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 32 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -153 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 337 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 491 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTOP 130649
SVRTOP
KSC029-157-130715-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
149 AM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...NORTHERN CLOUD COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN REPUBLIC COUNTY
 
AT 147 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED IN
THE CONCORDIA VICINITY.
 
THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH...AND THE TOWNS OF
HOLLIS...CLYDE...AND AGENDA ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
 
DDN

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, May 13, 12:52 AM CDT, 57 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT...PRELIMINARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1255 AM CDT SAT MAY 13 1995

TIME****   LOCATION OF EVENT*******  ST   TYPE OF EVENT/DAMAGE******
DATE****   COUNTY INVOLVED*********       FATALITIES AND INJURIES***
                                          REMARKS*******************
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2055       MINNEAPOLIS               KS   GOLFBALL HAIL
5/12/95    OTTAWA

2055       BENNNGTON                 KS  2.00 HAIL
5/12/95    OTTAWA

2100       5S MINNEAPOLIS            KS   POWER LINES DONW
5/12/95    OTTAWA

2142       7W JUNCTION CITY          KS   1.5 HAIL
5/12/95    OTTAWA

2148       CHAPMAN                   KS   .88 HAIL/POWER LINES DOWN
5/12/95    DICKINSON

2200       JUNCTION CITY             KS   POWER LINES DOWN/1.00 HAIL
5/12/95    GEARY

2230       7S MANHATTAN              KS   .75 HAIL
5/12/95    RILEY

2237       VOLLAND                   KS   TORNADO
5/12/95    WABAUNSEE

2212       5SE JUNCTION CITY         KS   1.50 HAIL
5/12/95    GEARY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 12, 8:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Ottawa	68 min
May 12, 9:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Ottawa	25 min
May 12, 9:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Dickinson	44 min
May 12, 9:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Clay	64 min
May 12, 9:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Geary	44 min
May 12, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Riley	52 min
May 12, 10:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	45 min
May 12, 11:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee	49 min
May 12, 11:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	49 min
May 12, 11:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Republic, Washington	41 min
May 13, 12:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Clay	23 min
May 13, 2:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Washington	27 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.