Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 1991, 10:47 PM CDT for Marion County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 12, 1991, 10:47 PM CDT (03:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 1991, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, KS
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 392 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1502 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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, Apr 12, 4:53 PM CDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-122300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 453 PM CDT FRI APR 12 1991 AT 445 PM...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEST AND SOUTH OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. TWO AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEING MONITORED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT THIS TIME. THE FIRST WAS IN NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA...NORTHWEST OF ENID. NUMEROUS TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THIS STORM. PRESENT MOVEMENT WILL BRING IT INTO SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS IN THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. THE OTHER STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF PRATT. THIS STORM HAS DEVELOPED RAPIDLY...HOWEVER AT THIS TIME THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER ASSOCIATED WI!TH IT. BOTH STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. *TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 125 IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 800 PM CDT. LEIVERS
Special weather statement, Apr 12, 5:07 PM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-122300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 508 PM CDT FRI APR 12 1991 AT 500 PM...STORMS WEST AND SOUTH OF WICHITA BEING MONITORED. TWO AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEING MONITORED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT THIS TIME. THE FIRST WAS IN NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA...NORTHWEST OF ENID. NUMEROUS TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THIS STORM. PRESENT MOVEMENT WILL BRING IT INTO SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS IN ABOUT AN HOUR. THE OTHER STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF PRATT. A TORNADO HAS JUST BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. BOTH STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. PEOPLE NEAR THESE AREWAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION. *TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 125 IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 800 PM CDT. LEIVERS
Special weather statement, Apr 12, 8:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-130230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 840 PM CDT FRI APR 12 1991 ...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS STILL MOVING SLOWLY ACROSS CENTRAL KANSAS. AT 830 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE NEBRASKA BORDER NORTHEAST OF CONCORDIA...TO SALINA TO HUTCHINSON...TO PRATT. TRAILING THUNDERSTORMS NOT CONNECTED WITH THIS LINE WERE LOCATED SOUTH OF PRATT INTO OKLAHOMA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED EAST OF CONCORDIA AND 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON. OTHER INTENSE STORMS CONTINUED IN NORTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA. VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SOME HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THE STORM NEAR HUTCHINSON. THE SYSTEM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. *TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 130 COVERS ALL OF CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 100 AM CDT. LEIVERS
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, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.