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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Wichita, KS

April 26, 1991Greenwood County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 1991, 8:23 PM CDT for Greenwood County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 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: Apr 26, 1991, 8:23 PM CDT (01:23 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 1991, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Greenwood County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 26, 8:25 PM CDT	Tornado F3	Greenwood, KS
Apr 26, 8:35 PM CDT	Tornado F3	Greenwood, 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 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 409 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 485 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 17.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KICT 270126
TORICT
KSC073-270200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
823 PM CDT FRI APR 26 1991
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN GREENWOOD COUNTY
 
AT 725 PM CDT A TORNADO WAS ON THE GROUND IN SEVERY...45 MILES WEST OF
CHANUTE...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION...TAKE COVER NOW.
 
THE TOWNS OF SEVERY...CLIMAX AND FALL RIVER ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
STORM.
 
THIS EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS TORNADO WARNING FOR GREENWOOD COUNTY.
 
 
 
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 INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A
STURDIER BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO
TO A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A
TORNADO.  CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
 
PRESTON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase	59 min
Apr 26, 7:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Cowley, Elk	40 min
Apr 26, 7:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Butler	43 min
Apr 26, 7:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Chase, Greenwood	49 min
Apr 26, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	54 min
Apr 26, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Elk	49 min
Apr 26, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Montgomery	44 min
Apr 26, 7:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Elk, Greenwood	31 min
Apr 26, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	41 min
Apr 26, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Montgomery	47 min
Apr 26, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	44 min
Apr 26, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Wilson, Woodson	57 min
Apr 26, 8:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	36 min
Apr 26, 8:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Wilson, Woodson	58 min
Apr 26, 9:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	58 min
Apr 26, 10:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	32 min
Apr 27, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Bourbon	24 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.