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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 20, 1989, 8:19 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 20, 1989, 8:19 PM CDT (01:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 1989, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KICT 210119
TORICT
KSC015-210145-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
819 PM CDT SUN AUG 20 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF KANSAS
SOUTHEAST BUTLER
AT 816 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS ON THE GROUND IN EXTREME NORTHEAST
COWLEY COUNTY MOVING TOWARD LATHAM. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT
25 MPH.
PEOPLE IN LATHAM SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
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 20, 8:10 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-210200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 805 AM CDT SUN AUG 20 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE OVER CENTRAL KANSAS... THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS...SOME GUSTY WINDS AND PEA SIZED HAIL HAVE DEVELOPED AND MOVED NORTHEAST. THE THUNDERSTORMS FORMED 25 TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF WICHITA AND HAVE MOVED TO NEAR THE DOUGLASS AREA OR 20 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF WICHITA. THUNDER HAS JUST BEEN HEARD AT THE AIRPORT PLUS DEADLY LIGHTNING OVER HEAD AND EAST OF WICHITA. ALL STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. COUNTY AREAS. LR INDOORS AS THESE STORMS PASS AND DO NOT TRY TO CROSS WATER WHICH IS OVER THE ROAD. }THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTOMS MOVING THROUGH EASTERN KANSAS AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA. GAEDE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 29 min |
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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.