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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 30, 1986Gray County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1986, 9:00 PM CDT for Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 30, 1986, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 1986, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Gray 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 47 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1986-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 250 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1986-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 116 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee, Stafford50 min
Jun 30, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton, Stevens53 min
Jun 30, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant53 min
Jun 30, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee, Stafford65 min
Jun 30, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton, Stevens60 min
Jun 30, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGrant, Haskell60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.