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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Wichita, KS

May 27, 1991Marion County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1991, 2:05 AM CDT for Marion County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 1991, 2:05 AM CDT (07:05 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1991, 3:00 AM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Marion County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 145 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1991-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1006 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1991-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 144 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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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, 5 hours 52 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.

STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION...AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR
THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.

HEDGES
Special weather statement, May 27, 12:04 AM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler42 min
May 26, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick, Sumner63 min
May 26, 7:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman, Reno64 min
May 26, 7:51 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler69 min
May 26, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Marion7 min
May 26, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase65 min
May 26, 8:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick55 min
May 26, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno64 min
May 26, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion57 min
May 26, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase63 min
May 26, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood59 min
May 26, 9:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTButler, Chase55 min
May 26, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno42 min
May 26, 10:37 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTGreenwood3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1991Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991

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.