Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 1986, 3:43 PM CST for Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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
- Apr 17, 1986, 3:43 PM CST (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 1986, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Meade 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 4:00 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Meade, 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1184 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 172143 SVRDDC KSC119-172230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 343 PM CST THU APR 17 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS...CENTRAL MEADE AT 330PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS BETWEEN PLAINS AND MEADE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 3E0 MPH. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FREQUENT..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. RYBA
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, Apr 17, 3:10 PM CST, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 310 PM CST FRI APR 17 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH UNTIL 9PM CST... A NEWLY DEVELOPED THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED IN THE PAST FEW MINUTES IN SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. RADAR INDICATES THAT IT MAY HAVE SOME SMALL HAIL WHITHIN IT. MOVMENT IS NORTHEAST INTO MEADE COUNTY TOWARD THE CITY OF MEADE. RYBA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 5:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Ford, Kiowa | 59 min |
| Apr 17, 5:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | DDC | Edwards | 56 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.