Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1990, 4:32 AM CDT for Cherokee County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1990, 4:32 AM CDT (09:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1990, 5:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherokee 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
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 3516 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 965 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KICT 180938
SVRICT
KSC021-181030-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
432 AM CDT MON JUN 18 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS
...CHEROKEE
AT 430 AM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR 10 MILES EAST
OF PARSONS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE STORM WILL BE NEAR
SHERMAN BY 450 AM. HEAVY RAINS COULD PRODUCE LOW LYING FLOODING.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM DANGEROUS WEATHER
IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.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 18, 1:14 AM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-180710- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 112 AM CDT MON JUN 18 1990 ...STORMS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS... AT 100 AM A 10-MILE WIDE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED SINCE 1230 AM FROM 30 MILES EAST OF WICHITA...OR 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EL DORADO... TO 35 MILES WEST OF CHANUTE JUST NORTHWEST OF SEVERY. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF HEAVY RAIN AND PLENTY OF DEADLY LIGHTNING. MOVEMENT WAS EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR...AS THE STORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP. BURKE
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 1:51 AM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-180750- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 150 AM CDT MON JUN 18 1990 AT 135 AM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN EAST OF THE WICHITA
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 2:03 AM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-180750- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTION TO DIR FM CNU NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 150 AM CDT MON JUN 18 1990 AT 135 AM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN EAST OF THE WICHITA AREA. VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE IN A BAND 15 MILES WIDE FROM 30 MILES EAST OF WICHITA JUST EAST OF AUGUSTA TO 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF CH#ANUTE JUST SOUTHWEST OF EUREKA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST-NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. BURKE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 2:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 54 min |
| Jun 18, 3:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery, Wilson | 56 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.