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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Wichita, KS

April 17, 1991Marion County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 1991, 2:26 PM CDT for Marion County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 17, 1991, 2:26 PM CDT (19:26 UTC)
Expired
Apr 17, 1991, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Marion County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 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 12:00Z on 1991-04-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1991-04-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 216 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
216 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.2

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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, Apr 17, 11:40 AM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-171730-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1139 AM CDT WED APR 17 1991

...THUNDERSTORMS COTINUE TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY ACROSS
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 1127 AM CDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...25 MILES WIDE...STRETCHED FROM
40 MILES WEST OF SALINA...TO JUST WEST OF HUTCHINSON...TO 60 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA...NEAR THE KANSAS/OKLAHOMA BORDER.

THE STRONGER STORMS WERE LOCATED...15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON...
NEAR PARTRIDGE.  VERY HEAVY RAINS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.  MOVEMENT OF INDIVIDUAL STORMS WAS NORTH AT 20 MPH...
WHILE THE LINE IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH.

THE SHOWERS WILL MOVE INTO ThHE HUTCHINSON DURING THE NEXT 20 MINUTES.
A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR COUNTIES WEST OF WICHITA.
PRESTON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 17, 11:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno66 min
Apr 17, 1:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey, Reno60 min
Apr 17, 1:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion60 min
Apr 17, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner66 min
Apr 17, 2:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey46 min
Apr 17, 2:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler66 min
Apr 17, 4:47 PM CDTTornado WarningICTKingman, Reno28 min
Apr 17, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Kingman69 min
Apr 17, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCherokee30 min
Apr 17, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCherokee24 min

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.