Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 1988, 7:54 PM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1988, 7:54 PM CDT (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1988, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sedgwick 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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 679 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 947 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TORICT
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BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
754 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
...NORTHERN SEDGWICK
AT 752 PM CDT...A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS SPOTTED BY THE PUBLIC AT 29TH
STREET NORTH AND BROADWAY IN NORTH WICHITA....THE STORM WAS MOVING
TO THE WEST AT 15 MILES MILES AN HOUR.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO
TO A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A
TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 26, 3:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 345 PM CDT SUN JUN 26 1988 ...THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING RAPIDLY... AT 330 PM...STORMS WERE INCREASING RAPIDLY OVER PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL KANSAS. THE MOST INTENSE STORMS...THOSE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...WERE LOCATED 10 MILES TO THE NORTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON AND JUST TO THE WEST OF MEDICINE LODGE. BOATERS AND CAMPERS SHOULD BE ESPE|CIALLY ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. WILSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 64 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.