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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Wichita, KS

May 22, 1989Labette County, Neosho County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1989, 2:35 AM CDT for Labette County, Neosho County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 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 22, 1989, 2:35 AM CDT (07:35 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 1989, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Labette County, KS, Neosho 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 22, 3:00 AM CDTThunderstorm Wind 55Labette, KS
May 22, 3:15 AM CDTThunderstorm Wind 0Neosho, 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 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 143 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1989-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1989-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1856 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
346 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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, 10:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
KSZ009-009-011-012-014-017-220430-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1015 PM CDT SUN MAY 21 1989

...THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING AROUND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 1010 PM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED RATHER QUICKLY
BETWEEN WICHITA AND PRATT...AND ALSO JUST SOUTHWEST OF EUREKA...OR ABOUT
55 MILES EAST OF WICHITA.

THE STORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS...AND MAY HAVE THE
POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE.  A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR MUCH
OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND A SMALL PORTION OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

PERSONS IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR
RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND STHATEMENTS.  STORMS MAY
STRENGTHEN QUICKLY...SO YOU SHOULD BE READY TO GET TO SHELTER QUICKLY.

ALSO...OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE WEST OF A LINE FROM SALINA TO
MEDICINE LODGE...OR ABOUT 60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA.

KRAUSE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 21, 8:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBourbon40 min
May 21, 9:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTCowley4 hr
May 21, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick55 min
May 21, 10:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman, Reno68 min
May 21, 11:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick, Sumner59 min
May 21, 11:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler68 min
May 21, 11:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey58 min
May 21, 11:42 PM CDTTornado WarningICTReno33 min
May 21, 11:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood59 min
May 21, 11:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper61 min
May 22, 12:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick, Sumner67 min
May 22, 12:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Cowley57 min
May 22, 1:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua, Elk, Greenwood63 min
May 22, 2:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMontgomery, Wilson55 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.