Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1989, 11:59 PM CST for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 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
- Mar 29, 1989, 11:59 PM CST (05:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1989, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumner 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 12:15 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Sumner, 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KICT 300600
SVRICT
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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1159 PM CST WED MAR 29 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
...SUMNER
AT 1159 PM CST...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST
NORTHEAST OF ANTHONY KANSAS...OR 55 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA AND ON
SOUTH INTO NORTHERN OKLAHOMA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND HAD PRODUCED WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MILHOUR IN ANTHONY ALONG WITH SOME HAIL AROUND 1155 PM.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
Local storm report, Mar 29, 11:02 PM CST, 57 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1100 PM CST WED MAR 29 1989 TIME...CST EVENT LOCATION AND DAMAGE 818 PM 3/4 INCH HAIL HARPER CO...NEAR CORWIN 828 PM 3/4 TO 1 INCH HAIL HARPER CO...AT WALDRON LR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 7:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 45 min |
| Mar 29, 11:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 52 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989
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.