Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1986, 1:30 AM CDT for Clark County, Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1986, 1:30 AM CDT (06:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1986, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clark County, KS, Kiowa 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 2058 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1672 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jun 6, 10:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 3 AM CDT SAT JUN 7 1986 THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED THROUGH SOUTHWEST KANSAS EARLIER TONIGHT HAS ....FOR THE MOST PART....MOVED INTO NORTHERN OKLAHOMA. HOWEVER, THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY OF LESSER STRENGTH, ALONG WITH A LARGE SHOWER AREA, REMAINS IN EASTERN COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THESE COUNTIES ARE PAWNEE, FORD, EDWARDS, KIOWA, MEADE, CLARK, COMMANCHE AND BARBER. GHOLSON
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 11:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1110 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 1986 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR FINNEY COUNTY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1145 PM CDT TONIGHT. VERY STRONG WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED 7 MILES NORTH OF LAKIN IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. HEAVY RAIN VERY STRONG WINDS AND 3/4 INCH HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY. THE GARDEN CITY AIRPORT HAS RECIEVED WINDS UP TO 63 MPH IN THE PAST HOUR." MOVEMENT IS SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. RYBA
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 11:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1145 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 1986 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR GRAY COUNTY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1230 AM CDT. HEAVY RAINS FAND WINDS 40 TO 45 MPH HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE INGALLS AND CIMARRON AREA IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. MOVEMENT OF THIS VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. RYBA
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 12:40 AM CDT, 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1240 AM CDT SAT JUN 7 1986 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MEADE,FORD,HODGEMAN AND SOUTHERN GRAY COUNTIES IS IN EFFECT -UNTIL 130 AM THIS SATURDAY. HEAVY RAINS AND WINDS HAVE HIT THE DODGE CITY AREA. IN THE PAST 25 MINUTES .32 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ALONG WITH WINDS UP TO 51 MPH AT THE DODGE CITY AIRPORT. RYBA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 45 min |
| Jun 6, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 40 min |
| Jun 6, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 65 min |
| Jun 7, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Gray, Meade | 60 min |
| Jun 7, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.