Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1995, 8:13 PM CDT for Brown County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 1995, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1995, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brown County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 92 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 090114 RRA SVRTOP KSC013-090145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 813 PM CDT SAT APR 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST KANSAS ...BROWN COUNTY AT 808 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF HIAWATHA NEAR SABETHA. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE THROUGH OR NEAR MORRILL...HAMLIN...PADONIA ...RESERVE AND HIAWATHA BY 845 PM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE. 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, Apr 8, 4:01 PM CDT, 4 hours 12 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, 4 hours 11 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, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 45 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.