Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1986, 9:42 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1986, 9:42 PM CDT (02:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1986, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Finney County, KS
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 160242 SVRDDC KSC055-160235- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 942 PM CDT THU MAY 15 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 935 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS...NORTH CENTRAL FINNEY AT 930 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 15 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY KS MOVING EAST AT 20MPH. GOLF-BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT HOLCOMB KS BY GARDEN CITY LAW ENFORCEMENT CENTER. 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. GHOLSON 842 PM CDT
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 15, 7:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 745 PM CDT THU MAY 15 1986 AT 745 PM CDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED INTO WESTERN HAMILTON COUNTY...APPROXIMATELY 65 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY, KS. THE STORM IS 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SYRACUSE IN HAMILTON COUNTY... MOVING EAST AT 25MPH. ALTHOUGH THE HAMILTON COUNTY SHERRIFFS OFFICE REPORTS ONLY LIGHT RAIN WITH THIS STORM AT THE PRESENT TIME, RADAR INDICATES A POTENTIAL FOR L8OCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY HAIL ALONG THE PATH OF THE STORM AS IT MOVES EAST. GHOLSON
Special weather statement, May 15, 8:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
820 PM CDT THU MAY 15 1986
......SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WESTERN THIRD OF KANSAS TILL
10 AM FRIDAY MORNING. .............
AT 810 CDT A HEAVY THUNDERSTORM PASSED THROUGH SYRACUSE KANSAS IN CENTRAL
HAMILTON COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THIS THUNDERSTORM..LOCATED 60 MILES
WEST OF GARDEN CITY KANSAS CONTAINED PEA SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN AS IT
PASSED THROUGH SYRACUSE.
PERSONS IN KENDALL AND LAKIN KANSAS IN CENTRAL KEARNEY COUNTY ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM AND SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER IN CASE THIS STORM
INCREASES IN INTENSITY.
THE STORM WAS MOVING DUE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND FOLLOWING THE
ARKeANSAS RIVER.
NOLLERSpecial weather statement, May 15, 9:30 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
925 PM CDT THU MAY 15 1986
......SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WESTERN THIRD OF KANSAS TILL
100 AM FRIDAY MORNING..GRAY AND FORD COUNTIES EXCLUDED.....
THE TORNADO WARNING AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HAMILTON AND
KEARNY COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS WILL EXPIRE ON TIME AND NOT BE
RENEWED.
THE THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN KANSAS HAVE DIMINISHED IN INTENSITY AND
ARE NO LONGER LIFE THREATNING.
AT 920 PM CDT RADAR INDICATES THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS NORTHWEST
OF GARDEN CITY MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
NOLLERSpecial weather statement, May 15, 9:34 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
928 PM CDT THU MAY 15 1986
......SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WESTERN THIRD OF KANSAS TILL
100 AM FRIDAY MORNING..GRAY AND FORD COUNTIES EXCLUDED.....
THE TORNADO WARNING AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HAMILTON AND
KEARNY COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS WILL EXPIRE ON TIME AND NOT BE
RENEWED.
AT 920 PM CDT RADAR INDICATES THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS NORTHWEST
OF GARDEN CITY MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
PERSONS IN HOLCOMB AND GARDEN CITY OF FINNEY COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE
LOOKOUT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER AS THESE STORMS MOVE EAST.
NOLLERThe 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, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 55 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 |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.