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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 17, 1986Edwards County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 17, 1986, 5:34 PM CST for Edwards County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 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, 5:34 PM CST (23:34 UTC)
Expired
Apr 17, 1986, 6:30 PM CST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Edwards 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 17, 5:40 PM CSTHail 0.75Edwards, 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 53 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 12:00Z on 1986-04-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1986-04-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 284 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 172334
TORDDC
KSC047-180030-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
534 PM CST THU APR 17 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF


SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...EDWARDS

AT 530PM A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED NORTHEAST OF WINDHORST IN
EXTREME NORTHEAST FORD COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHWEST
EDWARDS COUNTY.

TAKE COVER AT ONCE.  DON/T WAIT UNTIL THE STORM IS UPON YOU...IT
MIGHT BE TOO LATE.

JOHNSON2333Z

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 17, 3:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMeade47 min
Apr 17, 5:01 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Ford, Kiowa59 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.