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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Wichita, KS

June 10, 1989Harvey County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1989, 6:06 PM CDT for Harvey County, Kansas. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 1989, 6:06 PM CDT (23:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1989, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Harvey 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 219 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1989-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 351 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1989-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 143 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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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, Jun 10, 4:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 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, 1 hour 9 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:26 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
KSZ012-017-102300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
525 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1989

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 449 FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST AND
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 8 PM CDT...

AT 512 PM CDT...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST EAST
OF WICHITA...TO ELDORADO...WHICH IS 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF WICHITA.

THE ONLY OTHER THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS WERE NEAR
COFFEYVILLE...BUT THESE DID NOT APPEAR TO BE SEVERE.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR BARTLESVILLE OKLAHOMA...AND WERE MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.  THESE STORMS SHOULD MOVE ACROSS THE
KANSAS...OKLAHOMA BORDER BY 6 PM CDT.  PERSONS IN CHAUTAUQUA...
MONTGOMERY...AND LABET-TE COUNTIES SHOULD LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

KRAUSE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 3:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick66 min
Jun 10, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Sedgwick59 min
Jun 10, 4:27 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSedgwick33 min
Jun 10, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler60 min
Jun 10, 5:36 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler39 min
Jun 10, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler57 min
Jun 10, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua67 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.