Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1989, 7:30 PM CDT for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1989, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1989, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 2646 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 858 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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, Aug 19, 6:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 620 PM CDT SAT AUG 19 1989 AT 618 AM...THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN HAVE DEVELOPED SINCE 6:00 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE SOUTHERN 2 ROWS OF COUNTIES FROM WINFIELD EAST TO THE STATE LINE OF MISSOURI. VERY HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS... PLUS THE SLOW EASTWARD MOVEMENT MAY CAUSE SOME SMALL STREAM FLOODING AS WELL AS STREET FL,OODING. PERSONS SHOULD REMAIN VERY WATCHFUL OF RISING WATER THE NEXT TWO HOURS. LR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Crawford | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 8:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 9:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 11:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 2 hr |
| Aug 20, 3:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.