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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Topeka, KS

March 27, 1989Morris County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 1989, 5:13 PM CST for Morris County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 27, 1989, 5:13 PM CST (23:13 UTC)
Expired
Mar 27, 1989, 6:00 PM CST
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Morris 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 302 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1989-03-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 36 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1989-03-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 285 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
36 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-362 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
949 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
285 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
325 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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.