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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Wichita, KS

March 13, 1990Sumner County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 1990, 10:46 PM CST for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 13, 1990, 10:46 PM CST (04:46 UTC)
Expired
Mar 13, 1990, 11:45 PM CST
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Sumner 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 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 222 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 00:00Z on 1990-03-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 00:00Z on 1990-03-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3214 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
273 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KICT 140446
SVRICT
KSC079-173-191-140545-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1046 PM CST TUE MAR 13 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
      HARVEY...SEDGWICK...SUMNER...THE CITY OF WICHITA

AT 1040PM A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM JUST WEST
OF NEWTON TO WICHITA TO JUST WEST OF WELLINGTON TO 40 MILES SOUTH
SOUTHEAST OF WICHITA.

 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...ANDs LIGHTNING.

 REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. BE ON THE
LOOKOUT.

ELAND

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 13, 6:16 PM CSTTornado WarningICTHarper, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick59 min
Mar 13, 6:34 PM CSTTornado WarningICTSumner41 min
Mar 13, 6:56 PM CSTTornado WarningICTHarvey, Reno49 min
Mar 13, 9:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman, Reno67 min
Mar 13, 9:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper67 min
Mar 13, 9:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick, Sumner61 min
Mar 13, 9:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey61 min
Mar 13, 10:46 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey, Sedgwick59 min
Mar 13, 10:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler64 min

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.