Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1990, 12:36 AM CDT for Harper County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1990, 12:36 AM CDT (05:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1990, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harper 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 3331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KICT 080536
SVRICT
KSC077-080630-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1236 AM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
EASTERN HARPER
AT 1233 AM A SPOTTER REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL IN RUNNYMEADE...
OR 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA. STORM MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTH
AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN DANVILLE SHOULD EXPECT THIS STORM BEFORE 1 AM.
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.
LEIVERSWhat 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, Jun 7, 6:36 PM CDT, 6 hours before
KSZ009-012-014-017-080030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 635 PM CDT THU JUN 7 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 410 IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF EASTERN KANSAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT... AT 630 PM...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS PERSISTED ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. THOSE MOST LIKELY PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WIND...WERE JUST TO THE SOUTHEAST OF EMPORIA AND JUST TqO THE SOUTHEAST OF TOPEKA. OTHER SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE SCATTERED IN A 35 MILE WIDE AREA THAT EXTENDED FROM 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF WICHITA...NEAR DE GRAFF... ACROSS EMPORIA TO NEAR TOPEKA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AND NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. WILSON
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 6:40 PM CDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before
KSZ009-012-014-017-080030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO TYPE OF WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 635 PM CDT THU JUN 7 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 410 IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF EASTERN KANSAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT... AT 630 PM...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS PERSISTED ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS. THOSE MOST LIKELY PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WIND...WERE JUST TO THE SOUTHEAST OF EMPORIA AND JUST TO THE SOUTHEAST OF TOPEKA. OTHER SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE SCATTERED IN A 35 MILE WIDE AREA THAT EXTENDED FROM 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF WICHITA...NEAR DE GRAFF... ACROSS EMPORIA TO NEAR TOPEKA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AND NORTHEAST A~T 15 MPH. WILSON
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 7:02 PM CDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before
KSZ009-012-014-017-080100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 701 PM CDT THU JUN 7 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 410 IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF EASTERN KANSAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT... AT 656 PM...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS PERSISTED ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS WITH THE HEAVIEST OF THESE JUST TO THE SOUTHEAST OF TOPEKA AND VERY NEAR EMPORIA. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED IN AN AREA 40 MILES WIDE...ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF WICHITA...NEAR MATFIELD GREEN...TO 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOPEKA OR NEAR COUNCIL GROVE...THEN TO NEAR TOPEKA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. WILSON WILSON
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 7:36 PM CDT, 5 hours before
KSZ009-012-014-017-080130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 735 PM CDT THU JUN 7 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 410 IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF EASTERN KANSAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT TONIGHT... AT 729 PM...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS PERSISTED ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS WITH THE HEAVIEST OF THESE STILL IN AROUND THE EMPORIA AREA AND 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOPEKA. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED IN AN AREA 40 MILES WIDE...ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF WICHITA NEAR NEWTON...TO JUST NORTH OF EMPORIA TO NEAR TOPEKA. IN ADDITION...THOSE STORMS IN AND AROUND THE COUNCIL GROVE... MATFIELD GREEN AREA:...40 TO 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF WICHITA...ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SOME HAIL AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. WILSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 58 min |
| Jun 7, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase, Marion | 61 min |
| Jun 7, 8:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Marion | 25 min |
| Jun 7, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Marion | 31 min |
| Jun 7, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 55 min |
| Jun 7, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 42 min |
| Jun 7, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 61 min |
| Jun 7, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 56 min |
| Jun 7, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 57 min |
| Jun 8, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 56 min |
| Jun 8, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 30 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.