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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wichita, KS

March 13, 1990Harvey County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 13, 1990, 5:27 PM CST for Harvey County, Kansas. It was in force for 18 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: Mar 13, 1990, 5:27 PM CST (23:27 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 1990, 5:45 PM CST
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Harvey 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
Mar 13, 5:30 PM CST	Tornado F5	Harvey, 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 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 1521 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 766 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KICT 132327
TORICT
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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
527 PM CST TUE MAR 13 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF KANSAS
      WESTERN HARVEY

AT 525 PM A LARGE TORNADO WAS IN WESTERN HARVEY COUNTY...3 MILES
NORTHEAST OF BURTON.  THIS WARNING EXTENDS THE PRESENT WARNING FOR
A FEW MINUTES LONGER...UTIL THE TORNADO MOVES INTO SOUTHERN
MCPHERSON COUNTY...

 TAKE COVER AT ONCE. DON/T WAIT UNTIL THE STORM IS UPON YOU...IT
MIGHT BE TOO LATE.

STEADHAM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 12, 7:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	32 min
Mar 12, 8:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	26 min
Mar 12, 9:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	48 min
Mar 13, 10:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno	58 min
Mar 13, 11:13 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	62 min
Mar 13, 4:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	55 min
Mar 13, 4:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ICT	Reno	38 min
Mar 13, 4:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harvey	38 min
Mar 13, 5:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ICT	Marion	62 min
Mar 13, 5:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sumner	46 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.