Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT for Brown County, Nemaha County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1995, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brown County, KS, Nemaha County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 1681 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1907 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOP 090031 RRA SVRTOP KSC013-131-090115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 730 PM CDT SAT APR 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST KANSAS ...WESTERN BROWN COUNTY...NORTHERN NEMAHA COUNTY AT 727 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR SENECA ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF HIAWATHA. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPM AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE ONEIDA AND KELLY AREAS BY 745 PM AND INTO THE FAIRVIEW AND SEBETHA AREAS BY 800 PM. 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. WOYNICK
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, Apr 8, 4:01 PM CDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
KSZ008>012-020>026-034>040-049-051>060-067>073-082-083-091>105-090125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 401 PM CDT SAT APR 8 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY... A VERY STRONG EARLY SPRING STORM WILL BRING A CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO EASTERN KANSAS SUNDAY. THE GREATEST THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WOULD GENERALLY BE EAST OF A MANHATTAN TO WICHITA LINE. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGIMG WINDS AND EVEN TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN THIS AREAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WOULD MOST LIKELY DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS EARLY SUNDAY AFTERNOON...AND THEN MOVE EASTWARD INTO EASTERN KANSAS. TAKE TIME NOW TO REVIEW SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY RULES FOR HOME AND WORK. < STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. WALAWENDER
Special weather statement, Apr 8, 4:02 PM CDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before
KSZ008>012-020>026-034>040-049-051>060-067>073-082-083-091>105-090125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 401 PM CDT SAT APR 8 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY... A VERY STRONG EARLY SPRING STORM WILL BRING A CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO EASTERN KANSAS SUNDAY. THE GREATEST THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WOULD GENERALLY BE EAST OF A MANHATTAN TO WICHITA LINE. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGIMG WINDS AND EVEN TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN THIS AREAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WOULD MOST LIKELY DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS EARLY SUNDAY AFTERNOON...AND THEN MOVE EASTWARD INTO EASTERN KANSAS. TAKE TIME NOW TO REVIEW SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY RULES FOR HOME AND WORK. < STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. WALAWENDER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 26 min |
| Apr 8, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 30 min |
| Apr 8, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 32 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.