Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1989, 5:15 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min. 3 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
- Jun 10, 1989, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1989, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 5:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Butler, KS | |
| Jun 10, 5:55 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Butler, KS | |
| Jun 10, 6:18 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Butler, 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 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 269 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
- 351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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, Jun 10, 4:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
KSZ-011-012-014-017-102200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 410 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 8 PM... AT 400 PM CDT...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS. SOME OF THESE STORMS HAD HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND...SMALL HAIL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS...THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS 5 MILES WEST OF EL DORADO...OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF WICHITA. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. PERSONS ON EL DORADO LAKE SHOULD GET OFF NOW. OTHER PEOPLE AROUND EL DORADO SHOULD LISTEN FOR LATExR STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. OTHERWISE...ONLY A FEW WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE AROUND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THESE WERE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM PITTSBURG TO EL DORADO. KRAUSE
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 4:57 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 66 min |
| Jun 10, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 59 min |
| Jun 10, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 33 min |
| Jun 10, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 39 min |
| Jun 10, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 69 min |
| Jun 10, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 57 min |
| Jun 10, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 67 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.