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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Wichita, KS

June 14, 1990Marion County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1990, 7:22 PM CDT for Marion County, Kansas. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 1990, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1990, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Marion 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 00:00Z on 1990-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 422 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 00:00Z on 1990-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -94 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
422 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-397 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1420 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
7.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KICT 150022
SVRICT
KSC115-150130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
722 PM CDT THU JUN 14 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
      MARION

AT  720PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR MARION
AND ANOTHER IN THE SOUTHWESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY NEAR PEABODY.
THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR.

 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.

 THIS SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTOM MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS
 AND UNDERPASSES.

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 14, 4:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
KSZ009-012-142208-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
410 AM CDT THU JUN 14 1990

...PEA SIZE HAIL IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 400PM PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AT VALLEY
CENTER KANSAS...JUST NORTH OF WICHITA. THIS THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AND WILL MOVE THROUGH OR NEAR PARK CITY
AND FURLEY BY 445PM

ELAND

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno60 min
Jun 14, 7:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTButler, Marion4 hr
Jun 14, 7:39 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler36 min
Jun 14, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey, Sedgwick60 min
Jun 14, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSedgwick30 min
Jun 14, 9:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Sedgwick59 min
Jun 14, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Cowley65 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.