Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 1991, 12:28 AM CST for Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 1991, 12:28 AM CST (06:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 1991, 1:15 AM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cowley County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 779 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 413 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 384 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 270629 SVRICT KSC035-270715- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1228 AM CST WED MAR 27 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...COWLEY COUNTY AT 1230 AM CST COWLEY COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS PRODUCING 65 MILE AN HOUR WIND AT GUEDA SPRINGS, WHICH IS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF ARKANSAS CITY. IN WINFIELD 58 MPH WIND WAS ALSO OBSERVED, WHICH IS 12 MILES NORTH OF ARKANSAS CITY. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERS TORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 6:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 55 min |
| Mar 26, 6:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 44 min |
| Mar 26, 6:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 47 min |
| Mar 26, 7:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 29 min |
| Mar 26, 7:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 33 min |
| Mar 26, 7:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 48 min |
| Mar 26, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 60 min |
| Mar 26, 8:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 52 min |
| Mar 26, 9:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 67 min |
| Mar 26, 9:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 62 min |
| Mar 26, 9:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 53 min |
| Mar 26, 10:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 39 min |
| Mar 26, 10:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 61 min |
| Mar 26, 10:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 40 min |
| Mar 26, 10:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Wilson | 50 min |
| Mar 26, 11:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 37 min |
| Mar 26, 11:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 36 min |
| Mar 26, 11:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 48 min |
| Mar 26, 11:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 42 min |
| Mar 26, 11:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 49 min |
| Mar 26, 11:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 40 min |
| Mar 27, 12:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Bourbon | 27 min |
| Mar 27, 12:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.