Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1995, 10:19 PM CDT for Lyon County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1995, 10:19 PM CDT (03:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1995, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lyon County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 080321 RRA SVRTOP KSC111-080400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1019 PM CDT WED JUN 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHEASTERN LYON COUNTY AT 1015 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF EMPORIA...OR JUST NORTHWEST OF THE TOWN OF READING. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY...HOWEVER THE STORM WILL STILL EFFECT THE TOWNS OF READING...MILLER...AND ADMIRE. BECAUSE OF THE PERSISTANT NATURE OF THIS STORM...VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL IN A SHORT TIME...SO ALSO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER ON RIVERS AND STREAMS IN THE WARNED AREA. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNAD(OES 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, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 37 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 |
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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.