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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Wichita, KS

June 8, 1990Sumner County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1990, 1:04 AM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 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: Jun 8, 1990, 1:04 AM CDT (06:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 1990, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Sumner 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	Remark
Jun 8, 1:10 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Sumner, 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 222 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KICT 080604
SVRICT
KSC191-080700-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
104 AM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
      SOUTHWEST SUMNER

AT 1 AM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT HAD BEEN IN
KINGMAN COUNTY WAS MOVING INTO WESTERN SUMNER COUNTY. ASSOCIATED
WITH THIS STORM WAS LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS
. THE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ARGONIA...OR 38 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
WICHITA. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. PERSONS WEST OF THE
CALDWELL AREA SHOULD EXPECT THIS STORM TO PASS OVER BY 115 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.

LEIVERS

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, Jun 7, 7:36 PM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes 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

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 12:47 AM CDT, 17 minutes before

KSZ009-012-014-017-080645-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1245 AM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 413 IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF
SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 3 AM THIS MORNING...

AT 1230 AM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...LARGE HAIL
STRONG GUSTY WINDS CONTINUED IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...WHLIE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED ACROSS MOST OF SOUTH
CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA OR JUST
NORTHEAST OF HARPER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED HAIL UP TO
GOLFBALL SIZE AT RUNNYMEDE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH
AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

ELESEWHERE...SCATERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN A AREA 55
MILES WIDE AND GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
OTTAWA TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF EMPORIA TO 15 MILES NORTH OF WICHITA TO 20
MILES NORTHEAST OF PRATT. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WERE 30
MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHANUTE AND 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF ARKANSAS CITY.
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
ROSNER

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, 12:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	54 min
Jun 8, 1:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	30 min

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.