Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 1990, 6:04 PM CDT for Harvey County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 9, 1990, 6:04 PM CDT (23:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 1990, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harvey 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1423 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 362 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 395 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KICT 092304
SVRICT
KSC079-100000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
604 PM CDT MON APR 9 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
WESTERN HARVEY
AT 558 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES EAST OF
HUTCHINSON JUST ON THE WEST EDGE OF HARVEY COUNTY. GOLFBALL SIZE
HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVED THROUGH HUTCHINSON.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST-NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. BE ON THE
LOOKOUT.
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, Apr 9, 4:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 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, 1 hour 2 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, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 43 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 |
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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.