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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Wichita, KS

May 14, 1990Chautauqua County, Montgomery County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 14, 1990, 9:34 PM CDT for Chautauqua County, Montgomery County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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: May 14, 1990, 9:34 PM CDT (02:34 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1990, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Chautauqua County, KS, Montgomery 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
May 14, 9:48 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Chautauqua, KS
May 14, 10:10 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Chautauqua, 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

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 197 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: 1937 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1002 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 3.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KICT 150234
TORICT
KSC019-125-150300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
934 PM CDT MON MAY 14 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF KANSAS
      EASTERN CHAUTAUQUA...WESTERN MONTGOMERY

AT 931 PM CDT A TORNADO WAS IN EXTREME EASTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY
JUST vNORTH OF NIOTAZE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF THE WARNING ISSUED EARLIER.

 THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. DON/T HESITATE.
 A FEW SECONDS MIGHT SAVE YOUR LIFE.

STEADHAM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	59 min
May 14, 7:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	4 hr
May 14, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley, Sumner	69 min
May 14, 8:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	32 min
May 14, 9:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Montgomery	25 min
May 14, 9:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Greenwood	56 min
May 14, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	59 min
May 14, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Sedgwick	68 min
May 15, 4:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno, Sedgwick	68 min
May 15, 5:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	44 min
May 15, 5:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	46 min
May 15, 5:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	31 min
May 15, 6:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase	40 min
May 15, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	26 min
May 15, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase, Marion	67 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.