Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Sep 8, 1989, 8:28 PM CDT for Kingman County, Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 22 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 8, 1989, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1989, 8:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kingman County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 8:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Sedgwick, KS | |
| Sep 8, 8:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Sedgwick, KS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 1051 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1238 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 7.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KICT 090128 RRA
TORICT
KSC095-173-090200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
828 PM CDT FRI SEP 8 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
NORTHEAST KINGMAN...NORTHWEST SEDGWICK
AT 820 PM CDT A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC
8 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF KINGMAN OR ABOUT 30 MILES
WEST OF WICHITA.
THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR...
AND PEOLE IN MIDWAY...MURDOCK...CHENEY AND GARDEN PLAIN SHOULD
TAKE SHELTER.
THIS WARNING DOES NOT INCLUDE THE CITY OqF WICHITA
TAKE COVER AT ONCE. DON/T WAIT UNTIL THE STORM IS UPON YOU...IT
MIGHT BE TOO LATE.
SWAINThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 55 min |
| Sep 8, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 65 min |
| Sep 8, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 59 min |
| Sep 8, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Reno | 55 min |
| Sep 8, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 58 min |
| Sep 8, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 52 min |
| Sep 8, 10:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 4 hr |
| Sep 9, 1:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 4 hr |
| Sep 9, 2:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 3 hr |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.