Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1988, 2:02 PM CDT for Butler County, Greenwood County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1988, 2:02 PM CDT (19:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1988, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Butler County, KS, Greenwood County, KS
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 374 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1345 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KICT 291904
SVRICT
KSC015-073-292000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
202 PM CDT WED JUN 29 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
...EASTERN BUTLER
IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS
...WESTERN GREENWOOD
AT 159 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING
FROM NEAR CASSODY OR ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF EL DORADO TO ABOUT 5
MILES WEST OF BEAUMONT...THESE STORMS HAVE CAUSED WINDS IN EXCESS OF
60MILES AN HOUR ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF EL DORADO OR JUST SOUTH OF
ROSALIA...THE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO GREENWOOD COUNTY BY 2 15 PM.
PEOPLE ALONG HIGHWAY 54 AND THE KANSAS TURNPIKE SHOULD BE
PREPARED FOR THESE STORMS.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM DANGEROUS WEATHER
IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.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, Jun 29, 1:50 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 149 PM CDT WED JUN 29 1988 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST BUTLER COUNTY AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM FOR THE AREA... AT 145 PM THE STORMS WERE IN A 10 MILE WIDE BAND THAT EXTENDED FROM ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEAUMONT...ALONG HIGHWAY 96 ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF EL DORADO TO NEAR THE BUTLER COUNTY FISHING LAKE LOCATED NORTHEAST OF LATHAM. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MILES AN HOUR AND SOME HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED AS THE STORM MOVES NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR...PEOPLE IN THE TOWN OF BEAUMONT AND TRAVELING ALONG HIGHWAY 96 EAST OF EL DORADO SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION. SWAIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 30 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.