Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1988, 2:36 PM CDT for Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1988, 2:36 PM CDT (19:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1988, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Reno 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 995 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, May 31, 12:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1242 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 1988 AT 1230 PM CDT...ISOLATED VERY HEAVY STORMS WERE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THESE WERE LOCATED IN AND NEAR THE WINFIELD AREA AND JUST TO THE EAST OF ARKANSAS CITY. ALSO...VERY HEAVY STORMS WERE FROM STAFFORD TO NEAR MEDICINE LODGE. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...STRONG WIND... VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. BOATERS AND OTHER PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD BE AWARE THAT THESE STORMS ARE IN THE AREA. OTHER SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AS WELL AS A LARGER PART OF WESTERN KANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN ;HOUR. WILSON
Special weather statement, May 31, 1:44 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 143 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 1988 AT 130 PM CDT...VERY HEAVY STORMS WERE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL KANSAS. THESE WERE IN A 10 MILE WIDE AREA THAT EXTENDED FROM CHASE TO JUST EAST OF PRATT TO NEAR HARPER. OTHER VERY HEAVY STORMS WERE ISOLATED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THESE WERE JUST EAST OF ARKANSAS CITY AND JUST TO THE NORTHEAST AND SOUTHEAST OF SALVINA. A FEW IF THESE STORMS WILL CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...STRONG AND GUSTY WIND...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND PEOPLE ARE ADVISED. STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. WILSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 1:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 31 min |
| May 31, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey | 25 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988
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.