Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 22, 1986, 5:17 PM CDT for Doniphan County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min. 2 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
- Sep 22, 1986, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 1986, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Doniphan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 5:40 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Doniphan, KS | |
| Sep 22, 5:55 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Doniphan, 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 1522 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 776 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 222217 SVRMCI KSC043-222315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INT'L AIRPORT MO 517 PM CDT MON SEP 22 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTHEAST KANSAS...DONIPHAN AT 514 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF TROY KANSAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ..LARGE HAIL..FREQUENT LIGHTNING..AND HEAVY RAIN THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD SMALL STREAMS AND LOW LYING AREAS. THESE STORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING..SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF ONE IS SPOTTED. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. BB/RAH/CS/NFS
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, Sep 22, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 315 PM CDT MON SEP 22 1986 ...A THUNDERSTORM CONTAINING HEAVY RAIN TO ENTER EXTREME NORTHWEST MISSOURI... AT 300 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN RICHARDSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. THE STORM WILL BE MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN HOLT AND SOUTHERN ATCHISON COUNTIES IN NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI BETWEEN 300 PM AND 430 PM CDT THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HAIL..UP TO MARBLE SIZE...GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINS. THE RAINFALL FROM THIS STORM COULD CAUSE SOME LOW LYING LOCATIONS TO BECOME COVERED WITH WATER AND MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED ROADS.
Special weather statement, Sep 22, 4:46 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 430 PM CDT MON SEP 22 1986 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHERN MISSOURI UNTIL 10 PM CDT...INCLUDING THE ST JOSEPH AREA... AT 430 PM...VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN EXTREME NORTHEAST KANSAS AND EXTREME NORTHWEST MISSOURI. IN KANSAS THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN BROWN AND DONIPHAN COUNTIES...AND IN MISSOURI THE MOST INTENSE STORMS WERE NORTHWEST AND NORTH OF ST JOSEPH...IN HOLT AND NODAWAY COUNTIES. A PERIOD OF VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORMS...AND POSSIBLY STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
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.