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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Wichita, KS

May 25, 1990Allen County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1990, 6:02 PM CDT for Allen County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 1990, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1990, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Allen 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 127 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 12:00Z on 1990-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1426 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 12:00Z on 1990-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 208 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1426 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-297 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
743 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
208 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 25, 5:47 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-252315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
545 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 1990

AT 545 PM...SPOTTERS FROM IOLA IN ALLEN COUNTY REPORTED VERY HEAVY
RAIN FROM THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH WAS ON THE WOODSON-ALLEN COUNTY
LINE JUST SOUTHWEST OF IOLA. THE THUNDERSTORM HAS CONTINUED TO
DEVELOP...HOWEVER NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS YET BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH
THE STORM.

THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND SHOULD
MOVE INTO IOLA BY 600 PM CDT.

STEADHAM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 7:20 PM CDTTornado WarningICTMarion25 min
May 24, 7:44 PM CDTTornado WarningICTMarion46 min
May 24, 7:55 PM CDTTornado WarningICTMarion50 min
May 24, 8:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion24 min
May 24, 8:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase58 min
May 24, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase28 min
May 25, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTAllen67 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.