Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1995, 9:53 PM CDT for Osage County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1995, 9:53 PM CDT (02:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1995, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Osage County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 39 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
- 3417 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1305 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOP 080255 RRA SVRTOP KSC139-080330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 953 PM CDT WED JUN 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...SOUTHERN OSAGE COUNTY AT 952 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF EMPORIA NEAR THE WEST END OF MELVERN LAKE. THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM APPEARS TO BE LARGE HAIL...BUT ALSO EXTREMELY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL CONINTUE TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. BOATERS AND CAMPERS NEAR MELVERN LAKE NEED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER AT ONCE! 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 38 min |
| Jun 7, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 47 min |
| Jun 7, 9:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Osage | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 41 min |
| Jun 7, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 35 min |
| Jun 7, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 32 min |
| Jun 7, 11:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon | 38 min |
| Jun 7, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 12:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 54 min |
| Jun 8, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 43 min |
| Jun 8, 12:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee | 53 min |
| Jun 8, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 51 min |
| Jun 8, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 43 min |
| Jun 8, 1:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Clay | 47 min |
| Jun 8, 1:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 42 min |
| Jun 8, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 53 min |
| Jun 8, 1:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 27 min |
| Jun 8, 1:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley, Washington | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 2:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Franklin | 41 min |
| Jun 8, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 31 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.