Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 1991, 10:33 PM CDT for Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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
- Apr 12, 1991, 10:33 PM CDT (03:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 1991, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kingman County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 11:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Kingman, 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3500 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 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 130335 SVRICT KSC095-130415- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1033 PM CDT FRI APR 12 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...NORTHWESTERN KINGMAN COUNTY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN KINGMAN COUNTY HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 11:15 PM CDT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH POSSIBLE LARGE HAIL WAS 15 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF PRATT AT 1035 PM. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN AND AROUND CUNNINGHAM AND PENALOSA ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STOR3M. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 61 min |
| Apr 12, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 63 min |
| Apr 12, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 55 min |
| Apr 12, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Marion | 58 min |
| Apr 12, 11:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 60 min |
| Apr 12, 11:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Reno | 116 min |
| Apr 12, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 65 min |
| Apr 12, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 68 min |
| Apr 13, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 57 min |
| Apr 13, 12:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Kingman | 2 hr |
| Apr 13, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 50 min |
| Apr 13, 1:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Sedgwick | 69 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.