Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Wichita, KS

April 26, 1991Sedgwick County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1991, 8:04 PM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 41 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 26, 1991, 8:04 PM CDT (01:04 UTC)
Expired
Apr 26, 1991, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Sedgwick County, KS

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 26, 8:33 PM CDTTornado F0Sedgwick, 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 215 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1991-04-27Temperature 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1991-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
3419 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 26, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase59 min
Apr 26, 7:05 PM CDTTornado WarningICTCowley, Elk40 min
Apr 26, 7:17 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler43 min
Apr 26, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningICTChase, Greenwood49 min
Apr 26, 7:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood54 min
Apr 26, 7:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTElk49 min
Apr 26, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua, Montgomery44 min
Apr 26, 7:59 PM CDTTornado WarningICTElk, Greenwood31 min
Apr 26, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMontgomery47 min
Apr 26, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner44 min
Apr 26, 8:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWilson, Woodson57 min
Apr 26, 8:23 PM CDTTornado WarningICTGreenwood37 min
Apr 26, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSedgwick36 min
Apr 26, 8:57 PM CDTTornado WarningICTWilson, Woodson58 min
Apr 26, 9:17 PM CDTTornado WarningICTLabette, Montgomery58 min
Apr 26, 10:13 PM CDTTornado WarningICTLabette, Montgomery32 min
Apr 27, 12:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBourbon24 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.