Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1990
Tornado Warning 30, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1990, 7:39 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report 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, 7:39 PM CDT (00:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1990, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butler 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, 7:40 PM CDT | Hail 4 | 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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 150039
TORICT
KSC015-150115-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
739 PM CDT THU JUN 14 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
BUTLER
AT 7:40 PM CDT ELDORADO POLICE REPORTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
NEAR ELDORADO LAKE. ALSO BASEBALL TO SOFTBALL SIZE HAIL
WAS OCCURRING FROM THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE NEAR ELDORADO LAKE
TAKE COVER.
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 28 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, 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, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 59 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.