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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Wichita, KS

March 27, 1989Butler County, Cowley County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 1989, 4:16 PM CST for Butler County, Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 27, 1989, 4:16 PM CST (22:16 UTC)
Expired
Mar 27, 1989, 5:15 PM CST
In force
59 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Ok Cty/Will Rgrs, OK (KOKC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 244 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, Ok Cty/Will Rgrs, OK at 12:00Z on 1989-03-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 105 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Ok Cty/Will Rgrs, OK at 12:00Z on 1989-03-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 158 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
105 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-260 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
225 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 27, 2:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Kingman55 min
Mar 27, 2:49 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno56 min
Mar 27, 3:21 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey, Sedgwick, Sumner69 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.