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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 11:57 PM CDT for Clay County, Dickinson County, Washington County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1995, 11:57 PM CDT (04:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Washington County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 2887 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1205 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KTOP 040458 RRA SVRTOP KSC041-027-201-040530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 1157 PM CDT MON JUL 3 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL KANSAS ...DICKINSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...EASTERN CLAY COUNTY...EASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AT 1156 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NORTH OF CLAY CENTER NEAR WASHINGTON TO CLAY CENTER TO NEAR ABILENE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO THE GREENLEAF ...HANOVER...BROUGHTON...ENTERPRISE AND CHAPMAN AREAS AND MILFORD LAKE BY 1230 AM. VARIOUS DAMAGE REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM THE MINNEAPOLIS AREA WITH EARLIER THIS EVENING WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. 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. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE TO A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. WOYNICK &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson | 36 min |
| Jul 3, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson | 30 min |
| Jul 3, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 37 min |
| Jul 3, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 33 min |
| Jul 3, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Ottawa, Republic | 47 min |
| Jul 3, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 20 min |
| Jul 3, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Washington | 39 min |
| Jul 3, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Pottawatomie | 45 min |
| Jul 4, 12:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Marshall, Riley | 36 min |
| Jul 4, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 36 min |
| Jul 4, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson | 26 min |
| Jul 4, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 28 min |
| Jul 4, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson | 25 min |
| Jul 4, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 25 min |
| Jul 4, 1:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 33 min |
| Jul 4, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Riley | 35 min |
| Jul 4, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 35 min |
| Jul 4, 2:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 31 min |
| Jul 4, 2:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary | 31 min |
| Jul 4, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 37 min |
| Jul 4, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee | 45 min |
| Jul 4, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 41 min |
| Jul 4, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson | 42 min |
| Jul 4, 2:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown | 39 min |
| Jul 4, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson, Jefferson | 39 min |
| Jul 4, 3:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Cloud, Republic | 41 min |
| Jul 4, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Brown | 20 min |
| Jul 4, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson | 38 min |
| Jul 4, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 44 min |
| Jul 4, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic, Washington | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jackson | 17 min |
| Jul 4, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 46 min |
| Jul 4, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 36 min |
| Jul 4, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey | 21 min |
| Jul 4, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 34 min |
| Jul 4, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 21 min |
| Jul 4, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 28 min |
| Jul 4, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Franklin | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 32 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.