Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 16, 1990, 3:44 PM CST for Butler County, Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 16, 1990, 3:44 PM CST (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 16, 1990, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Butler County, KS, 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 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -169 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 738 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 343 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 342 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KICT 162154 COR
SVRICT
KSC015-035-162245-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION FOR TYPOS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
344 PM CST TUE JAN 16 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF KANSAS
BUTLER...COWLEY
AT 339 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF WINFIELD
...OR 23 MILES NORTH OF OF ARKANSAS CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
35 MILES AN HOUR. THE COWLEY COUNTY EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS DEPART-
MENT REPORTED 3/4-INCH HAIL COVERING 50 PERCENT OF THE GROUND.
IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR ATLANTA...LATHAM OR BEAUMONT.A..TAKE COVER
IMMEDIATELY.
IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM...GO TO A
REINFORCED SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...
VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND LIGHTNING.
BURKEWhat 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, Jan 16, 2:00 PM CST, 1 hour 44 minutes before
KSZ009-012-017-162115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS 159 PM CST TUE JAN 16 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH SOUTH-CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 155 PM...THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO SOUTH WICHITA. THESE STORMS WERE AT THE LEADING EDGE OF AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHEAST THROUGH SOUTH-CENTRAL KANSAS AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN...POOR VISIBILITIES...AND GUSTY WINDS CA>N BE EXPECTED. MONITOR YOUR RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND MOVE TO SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOP. BURKE
Special weather statement, Jan 16, 2:46 PM CST, 58 minutes before
KSZ009-012-017-162140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS 245 PM CST TUE JAN 16 1990 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN IN EXTREME SOUTHERN KANSAS... A WEATHER SERVICE STORM SPOTTER AT CALDWELL KANSAS REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAINS...NO HAIL AND NO STRONG WINDS AS SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS MOVED ACROSS THE CALDWELL KANSAS AREA ABOUT 230PM. CALDWELL KANSAS IS LOCATED ABOUT 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA. ELAND
Special weather statement, Jan 16, 2:57 PM CST, 47 minutes before
KSZ009-012-017-162155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS 255 PM CST TUE JAN 16 1990 SMALL HAIL IN EAST WICHITA. MC CONNELL AIR FORCE BASE IN EAST WICHITA REPORTED HEAVY RAIN AND PEA SIZE HAIL WITH A THUNDERSTORM AT 245PM THIS AFTERNOON. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 MILES AN HOUR. ELAND
Special weather statement, Jan 16, 3:06 PM CST, 38 minutes before
KSZ009-012-017-1621200 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KANSAS 305 PM CST TUE JAN 16 1990 THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO WICHITA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL... WILL BE MOVING THROUGH WICHITA. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE HEAVIER STORMS HAD MOVED INTO SOUTH WICHITA AT 3 PM. MOVEMENT IS NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. PEA-SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED BY THE WELLINGTON SHERIFF`S DEPARTMENT AS THESE STORMS MOVED OVER WELLINGTON LAKE...ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTH- SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA. BURKE
Nearby
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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.