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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Wichita, KS

April 9, 1990Reno County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 1990, 5:47 PM CDT for Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report 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: Apr 9, 1990, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired: Apr 9, 1990, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Reno 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
Apr 9, 6:34 PM CDT	Hail 2	Reno, 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 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 161 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1469 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KICT 092247
SVRICT
KSC155-092330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
547 PM CDT MON APR 9 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
      NORTHEAST RENO

AT 544 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE NORTHEAST
PART OF HUTCHINSON.  LARGE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH STORM.

THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR TOWARD THE TOWNS
OF BUHLER AND MENDORA.

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

BURKE

What 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, Apr 9, 4:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

KSZ009-011-012-017-092200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
414 PM CDT MON APR 9 1990

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 112 IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND
EAST KANSAS AND NORTH OKLAHOMA...

AT 413 PM CDT A FEW SHOWERS HAD DEVELOPED RAPIDLY IN CENTRAL KANSAS.
THEY WERE IN A LINE FOM 15 MILES WEST OF HUTCHINSON TO THE OKLAHOMA
STATE LINE 80 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA.

RYAN

Special weather statement, Apr 9, 5:02 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

KSZ009-011-012-017-092200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
603 PM CDT MON APR 9 1990

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 112 IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND
EAST KANSAS AND NORTH OKLAHOMA...

AT 600 PM CDT A THUNDERSTORM WAS CENTERED ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST
OF HUTCHINSON...ANOTHER WAS 35 MILES WEST OF WICHITA...OR JUST SOUTH
OF KINGMAN.  OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTH OKLAHOMA AND
WEST KANCSAS.

NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS INDICATED IN CENTRAL OR EAST KANSAS.

RYAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 9, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	56 min
Apr 9, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harvey	32 min
Apr 9, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	57 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.