Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 1989, 1:54 PM CDT for Chautauqua County, Montgomery County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 min. 2 reports 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
- May 21, 1989, 1:54 PM CDT (18:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 1989, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chautauqua County, KS, Montgomery 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 1:54 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Montgomery, KS | |
| May 21, 2:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Montgomery, 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
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1091 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KICT 211854
SVRICT
KSC019-125-212000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
154 PM CDT SUN MAY 21 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS
...NORTHEASTERN CHAUTAUQUA...MONTGOMERY
AT 150 PM CDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN LONGTON OR 50 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF WICHITA.
THESE STORMS WER MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE
IN THE TOWNS OF ELK CITY AND BOULTON SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR LARGE HAIL
WITH THESE STORMS.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCE SS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY... SO
DON'T DRIVE ONTO WATER-COVERED ROADS.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, 8:13 AM CDT, 5 hours 41 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, 12:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 66 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, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cherokee, Labette | 34 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.