Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1991, 3:40 PM CDT for Bourbon County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 min. 2 reports 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
- May 16, 1991, 3:40 PM CDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1991, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bourbon County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 4:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Bourbon, KS | |
| May 16, 4:34 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Bourbon, 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 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
- 676 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, May 16, 3:03 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-162100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 305 PM CDT THU MAY 16 1991 ...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CROSSING SOUTHEAST KANSAS. AT 255 PM CDT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS 20 MILES WIDE EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES WEST OF FT. SCOTT SOUTH TO 30 MILES EAST OF COFFEYVILLE. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED OVER GIRARD...OR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF PITTSBURG. THE PITTSBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED 1/2 INCH HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH...WHILE THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS LINE WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. OTHER INTENSE AND SEVERE WEATHER CONTINUED IN WETST CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...BUT DOES NOT POSE A THREAT TO SOUTH CENTRAL OR SOUTHEAST KANSAS AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...PERSONS THROUGHOUT THE AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 16, 3:05 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-162100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 305 PM CDT THU MAY 16 1991 ...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CROSSING SOUTHEAST KANSAS. AT 255 PM CDT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS 20 MILES WIDE EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES WEST OF FT. SCOTT SOUTH TO 30 MILES EAST OF COFFEYVILLE. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED OVER GIRARD...OR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF PITTSBURG. THE PITTSBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED 1/2 INCH HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH...WHILE THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS LINE WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. OTHER INTENSE AND SEVERE WEATHER CONTINUED IN WETST CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...BUT DOES NOT POSE A THREAT TO SOUTH CENTRAL OR SOUTHEAST KANSAS AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...PERSONS THROUGHOUT THE AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. *TORNADO WATCHES #345 AND #346 COVER CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM CDT. LEIVERS *CORRECTED TO INCLUDE WATCHES
Special weather statement, May 16, 3:23 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-162130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 322 PM CDT THU MAY 16 1991 ...SHOWERS DEVELOPING IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. AT 315 PM CDT...A FEW SHOWERS HAD DEVELOPED WEST AND SOUTH OF WICHITA. AT THIS TIME...THESE STORMS WERE VERY WEAK...HOWEVER THE ATMOSPHERE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS REMAINS VERY UNSTABLE AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. PERSONS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD STAY ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS: LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. *TORNADO WATCHES #345 & #346 COVER CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 9 PM CDT. LEIVE%RS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 4:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 38 min |
| May 16, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 68 min |
| May 16, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 51 min |
| May 16, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 45 min |
| May 16, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.