Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 4:13 PM CDT for Shawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1995, 4:13 PM CDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1995, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Shawnee County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 11 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
- 96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -437 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1980 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 354 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOP 162113 SVRTOP KSC177-162145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 413 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...SHAWNEE COUNTY AT 410 PM...SPOTTERS REPORTED 3/4 INCH HAIL NEAR 69 TH AND AUBURN IN SOUTHERN SHAWNEE COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST 30 MPH AND WILL AFFECT TOPEKA THROUGH 445 PM. ALSO EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. 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. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. &
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, May 16, 11:05 AM CDT, 5 hours 8 minutes before
KSZ001>105-161800- KANSAS SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1105 AM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995 ...SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE ACROSS KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE AREA MOSTLY LIKELY TO SEE SEVERE STORMS WOULD BE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM GOODLAND TO CONCORDIA TO MANHATTAN TO CHANUTE. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS WESTERN KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND MOVE EASTWARD INTO CENTRAL AND EAST KANSAS TONIGHT. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND EVEN TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. VERY HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN KANSAS...WHICH MAY CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING. TAKE TIME NOW TO REVIEW SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY PROCEDURES FOR HOME... WORK AND SCHOOL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. CRANDALL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 33 min |
| May 16, 1:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas, Osage, Shawnee | 4 hr |
| May 16, 3:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 27 min |
| May 16, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 44 min |
| May 16, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Morris | 49 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.