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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Wichita, KS

May 14, 1990Butler County, Sedgwick County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1990, 10:52 PM CDT for Butler County, Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 68 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
May 14, 1990, 10:52 PM CDT (03:52 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1990, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Butler County, KS, Sedgwick 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 14, 11:51 PM CDTHail 1Sedgwick, 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 193 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1990-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 806 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1990-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 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
806 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-149 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
863 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
3.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KICT 150407 COR
SVRICT
KSC015-173-150500-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1052 PM CDT MON MAY 14 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1200 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES

   IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
      BUTLER...SEDGWICK...THE CITY OF WICHITA

AT 1050 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO THE EXTREME
SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SEDGWICK COUNTY...VERY LARGE HAIL IS EXPECTED
FROM THIS STORM MOVING TOWARD WICHITA.

ANOTHER STORM WAS 5 MILES WEST OF AUGUSTA MOVING TOWARD ELDORADO
AND LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED.
THEY WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

 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.

STEADHAM

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, May 14, 5:40 PM CDT, 5 hours 12 minutes before
KSZ-012-017-142340-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
540 PM CDT MON MAY 14 1990

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 231 IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL
AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 1100 PM TONIGHT.

AT 530PM WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING JUST SOUTH
OF THE KANSAS BORDER IN NORTHERN OKLAHOMA AND WERE 25 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF ARKANSAS CITY TO JUST SOUTHEAST OF COFFEYVILLE.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING NORTHEAST INTO EXTREME SOUTHERN
KANSAS BY 545PM.

ELAND

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner59 min
May 14, 7:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTChautauqua4 hr
May 14, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua, Cowley, Sumner69 min
May 14, 8:28 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley, Sumner32 min
May 14, 9:05 PM CDTTornado WarningICTMontgomery25 min
May 14, 9:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Greenwood56 min
May 14, 9:34 PM CDTTornado WarningICTChautauqua, Montgomery26 min
May 14, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper59 min
May 15, 4:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno, Sedgwick68 min
May 15, 5:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey44 min
May 15, 5:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler46 min
May 15, 5:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion31 min
May 15, 6:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase40 min
May 15, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick26 min
May 15, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase, Marion67 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

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.