Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1986, 8:07 PM CDT for Morton County, Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 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
- Jun 30, 1986, 8:07 PM CDT (01:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1986, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Morton County, KS, Stevens 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 30, 8:22 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Morton, 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 250 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2309 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 30, 3:54 PM CDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before
KDDC 302049
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
350 PM CDT MON JUN 30 1986
......VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM OVER CLARK COUNTY......
AT 345 PM CDT A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY
ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF ASHLAND AND 75 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY.
THIS STORM IS PART OF A LINE THAT EXTENDS SOUTHWEST INTO THE
OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. MOVEMENT IS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
PERSUONS IN SOUTHERN CLARK AND EAST CENTRAL COMMANCHE COUNTY SHOULD
REMAIN ALERT TO THE CHANCE OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS.
CLYDESpecial weather statement, Jun 30, 5:03 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
KDDC 302049
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
500 PM CDT MON JUN 30 1986
......VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS/.....
AT 500 PM CDT HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHWESTERN
KANSAS. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM LARNED TO ASHLAND.
OTHER ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTH OF SYRACUSE AND NORTHEAST
OF ULYSES. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CLARK COUNTY HAS
EXPIRED.
CLYDESpecial weather statement, Jun 30, 6:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 620 PM CDT MON JUN 30 1986 VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO WERE MOVING EAST TOWARD WEST KANSAS AT 5 20 PM. THESE THUNSERSTORMS SHOULD REACH SYRACUSE KS IN HAMILTON COUNTY BY 6:45 PM CDT. OTHER VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER EDWARDS COUNTY NORTH OF KINSLEY AND BELPRE EXTENDING INTO STAFFORD COUNTY NORTH OF ST JOHN. THESE STORMS EXTENDED NORTH THROUGHC LARNED TO THE RUSH COUNTY BOARDER. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ONLY LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN AND MODERATE WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED AT KINSLEY AND LARNED KS BY 6 PM. DELZEIT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 50 min |
| Jun 30, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 53 min |
| Jun 30, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Stafford | 65 min |
| Jun 30, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 60 min |
| Jun 30, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Haskell | 60 min |
| Jun 30, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.