Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 1989, 7:20 PM CDT for Butler County, Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 8, 1989, 7:20 PM CDT (00:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1989, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Butler County, KS, Cowley County, KS
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 7:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 54 | Butler, KS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 794 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 964 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 457 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 592 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 19.7
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 65 min |
| Sep 8, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman, Sedgwick | 22 min |
| Sep 8, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 59 min |
| Sep 8, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno | 55 min |
| Sep 8, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 58 min |
| Sep 8, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 52 min |
| Sep 8, 10:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 4 hr |
| Sep 9, 1:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 4 hr |
| Sep 9, 2:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 3 hr |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.