Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 1986, 10:30 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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
- Aug 7, 1986, 10:30 PM CDT (03:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 1986, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 10:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Ford, 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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 9 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
- 2150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1739 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 7.1
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, Aug 7, 10:05 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 10 PM CDT WED AUG 6 1986 .....THUNDERSTORMS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS .............. TWO THUNDERSTORMS HAD RAPIDLY DEVELOPED IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS SINCE 9 PM. THE STRONGER OF THE TWO WAS OVER COLDWATER IN NORTHCENTRAL COMANCHE COUNTY OR ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DODGE CITY. THIS STORM CONTAINED MODERATE RAIN AND PEA SIZE HAIL. A SECOND STORM WAS BUILDING RAPIDLY 20 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE CITY JUST NORTH OF MINNEOLA KANSAS IN NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WILL BE DETERMINED SHORTLY BUT A SOUTHEASTERLY DIRECTION IS LIKELY. PERSONS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE THREATNING WEATHER TONIGHT..ESPECIALLY IN CLARK AND COMANCHE COUNTIES. NOLLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa | 50 min |
| Aug 8, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt, Stafford | 55 min |
| Aug 8, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 30 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.