Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 1986, 5:01 PM CST for Edwards County, Ford County, Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 min. 5 reports 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, 5:01 PM CST (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 1986, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Kiowa 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, 5:07 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Ford, KS | |
| Apr 17, 5:17 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Ford, KS | |
| Apr 17, 5:22 PM CST | Hail 2 | Edwards, KS | |
| Apr 17, 5:35 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Kiowa, KS | |
| Apr 17, 5:40 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Edwards, 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 36 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 172301 SVRDDC KSC047-057-097-180000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 501 PM CST THU APR 17 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...SOUTHERN EDWARDS...EASTERN FORD AND NORTHERN KIOWA AT 500PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST NORTH OF FORD KANSAS IN EASTERN FORD COUNTY MOVING EAST NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHERN EDWARDS AND NORTHERN KIOWA COUNTIES. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY DROP HAILSTONES 3/4 INCH OR LARGER AND PRODUCE WINDS 60 MILES AN HOUR OR STRONGER. JOHNSON2300Z
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, 1 hour 51 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
Special weather statement, Apr 17, 4:14 PM CST, 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 410 PM CST FRI APR 17 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH UNTIL 9PM CST... A VERY DANGEROUS STORM WAS OCCURRING ABOUT 10 MILES SmOUTH OF DODGE CITY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST 30 MPH. NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM BUT SHOULD BE WATCHED VERY CLOSLY. GREGG
Special weather statement, Apr 17, 4:42 PM CST, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 440 PM CST THU APR 17 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9PM CST... AT 440 PM CST RADAR SHOWED A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF DODGE CITY. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS AND SOME HAIL. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN SOUTHERN FORD..AND NORTHWEST KIOWA COUNTIES SHOULD WATCH THIS STORM CAREFULLY AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. JOHNSON2241Z
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 3:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 47 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.