Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1989, 8:13 PM CDT for Chautauqua County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 1989, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1989, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chautauqua 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1997 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 12, 5:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
KS009-011-012-014-017-121440- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 535 PM CDT MON JUN 12 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND STRONG GISTY WINDS SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF MEDICINE LODGE OR 75 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA... AT 527 PM AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN... HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WAS IN AN AREA 35 MILES WIDE FROM 55 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA TO 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PRATT. THESE THUNDERSTROMS APPEAR TO BE MOVING SLOWLY EASTWARD. ELAND
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 7:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
KS009-011-012-014-017-130155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 700 PM CDT MON JUN 12 1989 AT 655PM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WAS LOCATED FROM ARKANSAS CITY KANSAS TO NEAR SOUTHAHVEN KANSAS WHICH IS ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTH OF WICHITA. THESE THUNDER- STORMS WERE MOVIMG EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. AT 655 PM ARKANSAS CITY KANSAS POLICE DEPARTMENT HEAVY RAIN AND PEA SIZE HAIL IN @ARKANSAS CITY. ELAND
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 7:36 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
KS009-011-012-014-017-130130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 735 PM CDT MON JUN 12 1989 AT 730PM THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND STRONG WINDS WERE LOCATED 50 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF WICHITA OR JUST SOUTHWEST OF HOWARD KANSAS...IN AN AREA 15 MILES WIDE FROM NEAR ARKANSAS CITY KANSAS TO 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA OR JUST SOUTH OF ANTHONY KANSAS...AND JUST SOUTH OF MEDICINE LODGE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS 70 MILES WIDE AND CENTERED FROM NEAR CHANUTE TO WINFIELD TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA TO ALVA OKLAHOMA TO GAGE OKLAHOMA. THE STUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. ELAND
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 7:37 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
KS009-011-012-014-017-130155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 735 PM CDT MON JUN 12 1989 AT 730 PM THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED 1.10 INCHES OF RAIN IN 30 MINUTES 7 MILES EAST OF CAMBRIDGE OR 40 SOUTHEAST OF WICHITA. LR
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 8:10 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
KS009-011-012-014-017-130210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 806 PM CDT MON JUN 12 1989 ...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS... AT 800 PM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...MANY WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SOME WITH SMALL HAIL...WAS IN SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THIS LINE IS FROM 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF COFFEYVILLE...IN SOUTHERN ELK COUNTY... SOUTHWEST TO ARKANSAS CITY...THEN SOUTHWEST INTO OKLAHOMA BEFORE CURVING BACK INTO KANSAS 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA. BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH SEVERAL OF THESE STORMS IN THIS LINE. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL MAY CAUSE SOME FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS. BURKE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 10:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Cowley | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 10:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 3 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.