Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 1991, 11:24 PM CST for Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 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
- Mar 26, 1991, 11:24 PM CST (05:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 1991, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Reno County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 11:33 PM CST | Hail 2 | Reno, KS | |
| Mar 26, 11:50 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Reno, 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2959 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 270525 TORICT KSC155-270600- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1124 PM CST TUE MAR 26 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...RENO COUNTY AT 11:25 PM CST A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND 5 MILES WEST OF HUTCHINSON. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN YAGGY, WILLOWBROOK, AND MEDORA, TAKE COVER. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE... GO TO A SMALL INTERI0OR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A STURDIER BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Mar 26, 5:39 PM CST, 5 hours 45 minutes before
KSZ009-011-012-014-017-262245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 535 PM CST TUE MAR 26 1991 ...TORNADO WATCHES 63 AND 64 REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM. AT 530 PM CST THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM 75 MILES NORTHWEST OF WICHITA NEAR ELLSWORTH TO COLDWATER AREA OR 75 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA. LIGHT SHOULD BE STARTING IN RENO COUNTY 25 MILES WEST OF HUTCHINSON BY 545 PM. OTHER STORMS WERE IN NORTHEAST KANSAS AROUND THE TOPEKA...KANSAS CITY AREA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. LR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 6:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 55 min |
| Mar 26, 6:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 44 min |
| Mar 26, 6:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 47 min |
| Mar 26, 7:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 29 min |
| Mar 26, 7:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 33 min |
| Mar 26, 7:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 48 min |
| Mar 26, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 60 min |
| Mar 26, 8:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 52 min |
| Mar 26, 9:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 67 min |
| Mar 26, 9:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 62 min |
| Mar 26, 9:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 53 min |
| Mar 26, 10:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Kingman | 39 min |
| Mar 26, 10:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 61 min |
| Mar 26, 10:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 40 min |
| Mar 26, 10:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Wilson | 50 min |
| Mar 26, 11:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 37 min |
| Mar 26, 11:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 48 min |
| Mar 26, 11:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 42 min |
| Mar 26, 11:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 49 min |
| Mar 26, 11:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 40 min |
| Mar 27, 12:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Bourbon | 27 min |
| Mar 27, 12:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey | 36 min |
| Mar 27, 12:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 47 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.