Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 1989, 12:09 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 21, 1989, 12:09 PM CDT (17:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 1989, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butler 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 1964 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 21, 7:18 AM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before
KSZ009-009-011-012-014-017-211330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 715 AM CDT SUN MAY 21 1989 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL KANSAS TIL 1 PM... AT 712 AM CDT...STORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED 10 AND 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF EMPORIA...7 AND 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF SALINA...AND JUST NORTHWEST OF RUSSELL. MOVEMENT FOR ALL OF THESE STORMS WAS EAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. SHOWERS WERE IN A LARGE AREA WEST OF A LINE FROM WEST OF TOPEKA TO EMPORIA TO JUST NORTH OF WICHITA. BURKE
Special weather statement, May 21, 8:13 AM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
KSZ009-009-011-012-014-017-211430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 812 AM CDT SUN MAY 21 1989 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL KANSAS TIL 1 PM... AT 805 AM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WERE 12 MILES EAST-SOUTHEAST OF RUSSELL AND 25 MILES NORTWEST OF SALINA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SHOWERS AND 3THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN AN AREA NORTH OF A LINE FROM SOUTH OF EMPORIA TO NEAR WICHITA. NEW THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED NEAR THE KINGMAN AREA SINCE 735 AM. BURKE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 8:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 67 min |
| May 21, 9:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 64 min |
| May 21, 9:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 61 min |
| May 21, 9:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 51 min |
| May 21, 10:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 67 min |
| May 21, 11:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 29 min |
| May 21, 11:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 62 min |
| May 21, 11:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 33 min |
| May 21, 12:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 44 min |
| May 21, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 61 min |
| May 21, 12:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 57 min |
| May 21, 12:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk, Greenwood | 65 min |
| May 21, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Montgomery | 66 min |
| May 21, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cherokee, Labette | 34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.