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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Topeka, KS

May 16, 1995Douglas County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 9:39 PM CDT for Douglas County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 16, 1995, 9:39 PM CDT (02:39 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1995, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Douglas County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 33 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1995-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 426 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1995-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -35 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
426 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-256 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-5 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 170240
SVRTOP
KSC045-170315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
939 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY
 
AT 940 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 10
MILES SOUTH OF LAWRENCE...OR NEAR BALDWIN CITY.
 
THIS STORM WAS MOVING MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH...AND PEOPLE IN AND
EAST OF BALDWIN CITY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER NOW.
 
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WEST OF BALDWIN
CITY.
 
A TORNA"DO 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
 
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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, 4:57 PM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
KSZ001>101-162300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
456 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 407 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF KANSAS.
THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

...CENTRAL...
BARTON          ELLSWORTH       LINCOLN         RICE
RUSSELL

...SOUTH CENTRAL...
HARVEY          RENO            STAFFORD

THE FOLLOWING CITIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO
WATCH...

GREAT BEND      HUTCHINSON      RUSSELL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 7:22 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPMorris53 min
May 16, 7:31 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPDickinson4 hr
May 16, 7:57 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPLyon, Wabaunsee33 min
May 16, 8:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson, Geary55 min
May 16, 8:34 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPOsage26 min
May 16, 8:59 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPDouglas, Osage46 min
May 16, 9:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOttawa53 min
May 16, 9:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPDickinson, Geary, Morris4 hr
May 16, 9:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPGeary40 min
May 16, 9:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPFranklin48 min
May 16, 9:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson43 min
May 16, 9:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPDouglas, Osage, Shawnee4 hr
May 16, 10:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon, Morris, Wabaunsee41 min
May 16, 11:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsage36 min
May 16, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Franklin32 min
May 17, 1:05 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPDickinson, Geary3 hr
May 17, 1:21 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPDouglas, Osage, Shawnee3 hr
May 17, 1:21 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPFranklin3 hr
May 17, 1:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOttawa49 min
May 17, 1:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson44 min
May 17, 1:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOttawa48 min
May 17, 2:05 AM CDTTornado WarningTOPDickinson25 min
May 17, 2:19 AM CDTTornado WarningTOPGeary41 min
May 17, 2:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay44 min
May 17, 2:51 AM CDTTornado WarningTOPWabaunsee39 min
May 17, 2:54 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPWabaunsee3 hr
May 17, 3:12 AM CDTTornado WarningTOPShawnee34 min
May 17, 3:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Jefferson37 min
May 17, 3:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMorris35 min
May 17, 3:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson30 min
May 17, 3:59 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPDickinson, Geary4 hr
May 17, 4:09 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPDouglas, Franklin, Osage, Shawnee4 hr
May 17, 4:20 AM CDTTornado WarningTOPMorris28 min
May 17, 4:41 AM CDTTornado WarningTOPLyon37 min
May 17, 4:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPWabaunsee4 hr
May 17, 5:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsage36 min
May 17, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCoffey25 min

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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.