Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1990, 9:01 PM CDT for Butler County, Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 min. 2 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
- Jun 14, 1990, 9:01 PM CDT (02:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1990, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Butler County, KS, Sedgwick 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 14, 9:20 PM CDT | Hail 3 | Sedgwick, KS | |
| Jun 14, 10:00 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Butler, 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KICT 150201
SVRICT
KSC015-173-150300-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
901 PM CDT THU JUN 14 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
NORTHERN BUTLER...SEDGWICK...THE CITY OF WICHITA
AT 9:00 PM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING THREE QUARTER
TO ONE AND ONE HALF INCH HAIL ACROSS PORTIONS OF WICHITA.
ALSO RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM WICHITA
NORTHEASTWARD TO NEAR CASSODAY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO
THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THHREATENED 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, 4 hours 50 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 68 min |
| Jun 14, 7:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Marion | 4 hr |
| Jun 14, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 36 min |
| Jun 14, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 60 min |
| Jun 14, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 65 min |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.