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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 15, 1986Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1986, 8:45 PM CDT for Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 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 15, 1986, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 1986, 9:40 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Kearny 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 15, 9:15 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Kearny, 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 159 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2208 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 160145
SVRDDC
KSC093-160240-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
845 PM CDT THU MAY 15 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 940 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY OF


SOUTHWEST KANSAS...KEARNY

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ON THE HAMILITON KEARNEY COUNTY
LINE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.  THIS STORM CONTAINED GOLFBALL
 SIZE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN EAST OF SYRACUSE KANSAS.  PERSONS
AHEAD OF THIS STORM..KENDALL AND LAKIN KANSAS SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTION
S NOW TO PRROTECT THEMSELVES.

THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE DOWNBURST WINDS THAT CAN CAUSE DAMAGE
NEARLY xAS SEVERE AS THAT CAUSED BY TORNADOES.  IT IS WISE
TO TAKE SHELTER FROM THIS STORM JUST AS YOU WOULD FROM A TORNADO.

NOLLER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 8:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Kearny	51 min
May 15, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	48 min
May 16, 5:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Comanche	42 min
May 16, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche, Kiowa	55 min
May 16, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Pratt	18 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.