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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Wichita, KS

May 25, 1990Reno County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1990, 10:36 PM CDT for Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 69 min. 3 reports 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 25, 1990, 10:36 PM CDT (03:36 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 1990, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 69 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
May 25, 11:00 PM CDT	Hail 1	Reno, KS
May 25, 11:27 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Reno, KS
May 25, 11:35 PM CDT	Hail 1	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 00:00Z, 3.6 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: 1536 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1351 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KICT 260336
SVRICT
KSC155-260445-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1036 PM CDT FRI MAY 25 1990

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

   IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
      EASTERN RENO

AT 1032 PM CDT...RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM
ACROSS RENO COUNT...SOUTHEAST OF HUTCHINSON. GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL
HAD BEEN REPORTED IN THE TOWN OF CASTELTON AT 1027 PM WITH THIS
STORM. CASTLETON IS STRAIGHT SOUTH OF HUTCHINSON/

 IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM...GO TO A
REINFORCED SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING5 WIND...LARGE HAIL...
VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND LIGHTNING.

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

WILSON

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, 4 hours 49 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 7:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Allen	4 hr
May 25, 9:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman	48 min
May 25, 10:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Neosho, Wilson	3 hr
May 26, 1:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Neosho, Wilson	2 hr
May 26, 1:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Allen, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson	4 hr
May 26, 1:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Labette	4 hr
May 26, 1:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Bourbon	4 hr
May 26, 7:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	58 min
May 26, 5:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Bourbon	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1990 Every 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.