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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Wichita, KS

August 30, 1989Harper County, Sumner County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 1989, 7:57 PM CDT for Harper County, Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 30, 1989, 7:57 PM CDT (00:57 UTC)
Expired
Aug 30, 1989, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Harper County, KS, Sumner 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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 197 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1989-08-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1969 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1989-08-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 167 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1969 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
915 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
167 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
350 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.7
Supercell composite
13.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.