Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 19, 1989, 7:39 PM CDT for Crawford County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1989, 7:39 PM CDT (00:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1989, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crawford 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
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 723 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 381 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KICT 200039
TORICT
KSC037-200115-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
739 PM CDT SAT AUG 19 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF KANSAS
CRAWFORD
AT 736 PM CDT...A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED BY A SHERIFF JUST EAST
OF PITTSBURG. THE THUNDERSTORM AND ASSOCIATED FUNNEL CLOUD WERE
MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. DON/T HESITATE.
A FEW SECONDS MIGHT SAVE YOUR LIFE.
STEADHAMWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 11 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, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 60 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
Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 1989Every tornado warning in 1989Tornadoes 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.