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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Wichita, KS

April 26, 1991Chautauqua County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1991, 7:07 AM CDT for Chautauqua County, Kansas. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 26, 1991, 7:07 AM CDT (12:07 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 1991, 8:15 AM CDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Chautauqua County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 212 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 507 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 536 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 26, 3:36 AM CDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 26, 3:37 AM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 26, 4:42 AM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 26, 5:22 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 26, 6:41 AM CDT, 26 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 6:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	63 min
Apr 26, 7:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	65 min
Apr 26, 8:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	29 min
Apr 26, 8:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	29 min
Apr 26, 9:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua	36 min
Apr 26, 9:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	42 min
Apr 26, 10:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	42 min
Apr 26, 1:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Kingman	67 min
Apr 26, 2:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Kingman	34 min
Apr 26, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	53 min
Apr 26, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	32 min
Apr 26, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman	30 min
Apr 26, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase	25 min
Apr 26, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Reno	51 min
Apr 26, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	59 min
Apr 26, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey	57 min
Apr 26, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper	69 min
Apr 26, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Sumner	56 min
Apr 26, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harper, Sumner	19 min
Apr 26, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	55 min
Apr 26, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	35 min
Apr 26, 5:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sedgwick, Sumner	29 min
Apr 26, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	40 min
Apr 26, 6:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	36 min
Apr 26, 6:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harvey	29 min
Apr 26, 6:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Cowley	50 min
Apr 26, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Butler	60 min
Apr 26, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Marion	50 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.