Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1986, 5:13 PM CDT for Finney County, Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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
- Jun 9, 1986, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1986, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Finney County, KS, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 5:33 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Finney, KS | |
| Jun 9, 5:48 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | 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 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 203 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 992 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 9, 5:00 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 500 PM CDT MON JUN 9 1986 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT TONIGHT FOR MOST OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS. AT 5 PM CDT A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE AREA. ONE NEAR ULYSSES IN GRANT COUNTY AND ANOTHER SOUTH OF SYRACUSE IN SOUTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS...AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THES STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. RYBA
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.