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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 13, 1986Barber County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 1986, 7:23 PM CST for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 13, 1986, 7:23 PM CST (01:23 UTC)
Expired
Apr 13, 1986, 8:20 PM CST
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Barber 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 123 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 1986-04-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 318 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1986-04-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
318 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3658 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 140123
SVRDDC
KSC007-130220-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
723 PM CST SUN APR 13 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 820 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY OF


SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...EASTERN BARBER

AT 715 PM CST A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING THRU CENTRAL
 AND EASTERN BARBER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS.  MARBLE TO GOLF
BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED 5 MILES NORTH OF MEDICINE LODGE KANSAS
AT 710 PM CST.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT.  THIS WARNING IS FOR THE DAMAGING
WINDS AND LARGE HAIL OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  TORNADOES REMAIN
POSSIBLE FROM THIS AND OTHER STORMS...HOWEVER.

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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.