Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1986, 1:54 PM CDT for Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 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
- May 8, 1986, 1:54 PM CDT (18:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1986, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hodgeman County, KS
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 2:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Hodgeman, 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 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 2244 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 504 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 081854 SVRDDC KSC083-081930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 154 PM CDT THU MAY 8 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS...CENTRAL HODGEMAN AT 155 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES WEST OF JETMORE IN CENTRAL HODGEMAN COUNTY. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY. JOHNSON1853Z
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 8, 10:49 AM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1046 AM CDT THU MAY 8 1986 AT 1045 AM CDT THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE APPROACHING THE KANSAS BOARDER FROM 25 MILES SOUTH OF LIBERAL KANSAS WHICH IS IN SOUTHERN SEWARD COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE STRONGEST PART OF THE THUNDERSTORM AREA WAS BETWEEN GRAY AND BEAVER OKLAHOMA IN THE WESTERN HALF OF BEAVER COUNTY IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. PRESENT DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT WOULD PUT THESE STORMS JUST TO THE EAST OF LIBERAL KANSAS AROUND NOON TODAY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WERE NORTH AT 25 TO 30 MILES PER HOUR. ALTHOUGH THIS STORM IS NOT CONSIDERED SEVERE AT THIS TIME IT STILL IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS. NOLLER
Special weather statement, May 8, 10:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1046 AM CDT THU MAY 8 1986 AT 1045 AM CDT THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE APPROACHING THE KANSAS BOARDER FROM 25 MILES SOUTH OF LIBERAL KANSAS WHICH IS IN SOUTHERN SEWARD COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE STRONGEST PART OF THE THUNDERSTORM AREA WAS BETWEEN GRAY AND BEAVER OKLAHOMA IN THE WESTERN HALF OF BEAVER COUNTY IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. PRESENT DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT WOULD PUT THESE STORMS JUST TO THE EAST OF LIBERAL KANSAS AROUND NOON TODAY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WERE NORTH AT 25 TO 30 MILES PER HOUR. ALTHOUGH THIS STORM IS NOT CONSIDERED SEVERE AT THIS TIME IT STILL IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS. NOLLER
Special weather statement, May 8, 12:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
KDDC 081750
KDDC 081749
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1245 PM CDT THU MAY 8 1986
.........THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS DOT MANY
COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS......................
AT 1240 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS AND SMALL RAINSHOWERS DOT AS MANY AS
EIGHT DIFFERENT COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. GENERALLY THE MOST
NUMEROUS SHOWERS ARE NORTH OF GARDEN CITY IN FINNEY COUNTY AND SOUTH OF
MEADE IN MEADE COUNTY AND JUST SOUTH OF DODGE CITY IN FORD COUNTY.
OTHER SHOWERS ARE IN KIOWA AND COMMANCHE COUNTIES TO THE EAST OF DODGE CITY
ABOUT 45 MILES AND IN HODGEMAN COUNTY ABOUT 35 MILES NORTH OF DODGE CITY.
THESE STORMS COULD FORM INTO A LARGE SYSTEM AND BECOME SEVERE LATER TODAY.
PERSONS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS SHOULD PLAN ON RECEIVING SOME FORM OF RAINFALL
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.Special weather statement, May 8, 1:07 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOGE CITY KS 110 PM CDT THU MAY 8 1986 ..........HEAVY THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH DODGE CITY......... AT 110 PM CDT A HEAVY THUNDERSTORM RUMBLED ACROSS THE DODGE CITY AREA FROM THE SOUTH SPREADING HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS AND SOME PEA SIZE HAIL THROUGH THE METROPOLITAN AREA. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER IS INDICATED WITH THE STORM RESIDENTS OF DODGE CITY AND THE FORD COUNTY AREA ARE URGED TO BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS. JOHNSON1806Z
Special weather statement, May 8, 1:37 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOGE CITY KS 140 PM CDT THU MAY 8 1986 .........THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHWEST KANSAS......... AT 140 PM CDT THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PASSED THROUGH DODGE CITY HAD MOVED NORTH INTO SOUTHERN HODGEMAN COUNTY AND WAS HEADED TOWARD JETMORE. THIS STORM PRODUCED 1/4 INCH OF RAIN IN 10 MINUTES AND PEA SIZED HAIL AS WELL AS WINDS UP TO 45 MILES AN HOUR IN THE DODGE CITY AREA. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE ORGANIZED IN A LINE FROM NEAR DIGHTON SOUTH SOUTHEAST TO NEAR JETMORE AND CONTINUED MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. JOHNSON1836Z
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.