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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 13, 1986Morton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 13, 1986, 5:10 PM CDT for Morton County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 13, 1986, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 1986, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Morton 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 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 180 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 1986-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1797 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1986-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 131 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1797 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-426 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1249 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 132213
TORDDC
KSC129-132245-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
510 PM CDT SUN JUL 13 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES..

SOUTHWEST KANSAS...NORTHERN MORTON

AT 505 PM CDT A TORNADO HAS BEEN REPORTED BY THE RICHFIELD FIRE DEPARTMENT
SOUTH OF THE TOWN OF RTICHFIELD.  MOVEMENT WAS EAST 15 MILES AN HOUR.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.

RYBA

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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.