Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1991, 10:29 PM CDT for Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 min. 4 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 26, 1991, 10:29 PM CDT (03:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1991, 11:11 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Reno County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 10:35 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Reno, KS | |
| May 26, 10:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Reno, KS | |
| May 26, 11:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Reno, KS | |
| May 26, 11:05 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Reno, 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 1006 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1357 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, May 26, 8:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
KSZ017-270215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 813 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 399 UNTIL 2 AM FOR SOUTHEAST KANSAS... NO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS INDICATED OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS...HOWEVER THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER REMAINS HIGH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING OVER MANY PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...AND WILL MOVE EASTWARD INTO SOUTHEAST KANSAS DURING THE EVENING. S TAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION...AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. HEDGES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 42 min |
| May 26, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 63 min |
| May 26, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, Reno | 64 min |
| May 26, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 69 min |
| May 26, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Marion | 7 min |
| May 26, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 65 min |
| May 26, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 55 min |
| May 26, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 64 min |
| May 26, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 57 min |
| May 26, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase | 63 min |
| May 26, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 59 min |
| May 26, 9:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase | 55 min |
| May 26, 10:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 3 hr |
| May 27, 2:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 55 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.