Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1990, 8:39 PM CDT for Greenwood County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1990, 8:39 PM CDT (01:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1990, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greenwood 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 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 5742 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 826 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 6.7
- Supercell composite
- 28.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KICT 090139
SVRICT
KSC073-090215-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
839 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF KANSAS
GREENWOOD
AT 835 PM CDT...RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS
IN THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN GREENWOOD COUNTY AREA...MOVING TO THE
SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. THESE STORMS HAD PRODUCED EXTENSIVE
WIND DAMAGE IN MADISON...19 MILES SOUTH OF EMPORIA...AROUND 815 PM.
THESE STORMS ARE VERY DANGEROUS AND PEOPLE SHOULD SEEK SHELTER NOW.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. BE ON THE
LOOKOUT.
THIS SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTOM MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS
AND UNDERPASSES.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. SMALL BOATS SHOULD SEEK MSHELTER
IMMEDIATELY.
WILSONWhat 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 8, 6:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
KSZ009-012-014-017-090000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 612 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 422 IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND ALL OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM TONIGHT... AT 600 PM CDT...STRONG ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF EMPORIA TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EMPORIA. THE STRONGEST OF THESE WAS ABOUT 10 FMILES SOUTHEAST OF EMPORIA. THEY WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. LEIVERS
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 6:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
KSZ009-012-014-017-090030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 640 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 422 IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND ALL OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM TONIGHT... AT 630 PM CDT...STRONG ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTHWEST OF EMPORIA...10 MILES NORTHEAST OF EMPORIA AND 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EMPORIA. THEY WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH...AND SHOWED SIGNS OF INTENSIFICATION. LEIVERS
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 6:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
KSZ009-012-014-017-090030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 641 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 422 IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND ALL OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM TONIGHT... AT 630 PM CDT...STRONG ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTHWEST OF EMPORIA...10 MILES NORTHEAST OF EMPORIA AND 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EMPORIA. THEY WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH...AND SHOWED SIGNS OF INTENSIFICATION. LEIVERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 56 min |
| Jun 8, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 39 min |
| Jun 8, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick | 58 min |
| Jun 8, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 33 min |
| Jun 8, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 43 min |
| Jun 9, 1:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 1:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Woodson | 4 hr |
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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.