Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 26, 1986, 7:18 PM CDT for Johnson County, Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 26, 1986, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 1986, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Johnson County, KS, Miami 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 749 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 672 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 431 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMCI 270018 SVRMCI KSC091-121-270115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INT'L AIRPORT MO 718 PM CDT FRI SEP 26 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS...JOHNSON AND NORTHERN MIAMI AT 710 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OLATHE KANSAS..MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN. 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. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER. STAY AWAY FROM FLOODING CREEKS.. STREAMS AND STORM DRAINS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO WALK OR DRIVE THROUGH FLOWING WATER. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. JA/BB
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 26, 3:12 PM CDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 310PM CDT FRI SEP 26 1986 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EXTREME NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI AND AND PORTIONS OF EASTERN KANSAS UNTIL 9PM CDT...THIS DOES INCLUDE THE KANSAS CITY AND ST JOSEPH AREAS... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS EFFECT FOR THE KANSAS CITY AND ST JOSEPH AREAS UNTIL 9PM CDT THIS FRIDAY EVENING. FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE A AFTERNOON THERE ARE TWO THREATS FROM MOTHER NATURE. THE FIRST IS FROM STRONG WINDS AND HAIL...THE SECOND IS FROM HEAVY RAINS. WITH THE GROUND VERY WET IN THE WATCH AREA..ANY HEAVY RAIN COULD RESULT IN FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS. THEREFORE...JUST BECAUSE A THUNDERSTORM DOES NOT PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER IN YOUR AREA...IT DOES NOT MEAN A THREAT IS NOT PRESENT. PERSONS DRIVING IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH WATER COVERED ROADS.
Special weather statement, Sep 26, 4:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 430 PM CDT FRI SEP 26 1986 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EXTREME NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI AND AND PORTIONS OF EASTERN KANSAS UNTIL 9PM CDT...THIS DOES INCLUDE THE KANSAS CITY AND ST JOSEPH AREAS... A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELPED SINCE 330 PM FORM THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF KANSAS TO JUST WEST OF TOPEKA AND ON TO THE SOUTH/ WEST OF TOPEKA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. ALTHOUGH THERE HAS BEEN NO RECENT REPORTED SEVERE WEATHER WITH THESE STORMS..THE RAPID INTENSIFICATION OF THESE STORMS MAKES SEVERE WEATHER ALONG WITH SOME LOCAL FLOODING A GOOD PROBABLITY. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWEST MISSOURI..NORTH OF ST JOSEPH.. AROUND MOUND CITY BY 530 PM. ELSEWHERE..SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDRSTORMS CONTINUED OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL MISSOURI. THIS PRECIPITATION WS MOVING NORTHEA-ST 25 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Sep 26, 4:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY..CORRECTION TO TITLE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 430 PM CDT FRI SEP 26 1986 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EXTREME NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI AND AND PORTIONS OF EASTERN KANSAS UNTIL 9PM CDT...THIS DOES INCLUDE THE KANSAS CITY AND ST JOSEPH AREAS... A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELPED SINCE 330 PM FORM THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF KANSAS TO JUST WEST OF TOPEKA AND ON TO THE SOUTH/ WEST OF TOPEKA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. ALTHOUGH THERE HAS BEEN NO RECENT REPORTED SEVERE WEATHER WITH THESE STORMS..THE RAPID INTENSIFICATION OF THESE STORMS MAKES SEVERE WEATHER ALONG WITH SOME LOCAL FLOODING A GOOD PROBABLITY. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWEST MISSOURI..NORTH OF ST JOSEPH.. AROUND MOUND CITY BY 530 PM. ELSEWHERE..SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDRSTORMS CONTINUED OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL3 MISSOURI. THIS PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING NORTHEAST 25 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Sep 26, 6:38 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KANSAS CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MO 630 PM CDT FRI SEP 26 1986 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EXTREME NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI AND AND PORTIONS OF EASTERN KANSAS UNTIL 9PM CDT...THIS DOES INCLUDE THE KANSAS CITY AND ST JOSEPH AREAS... AN AREA OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF KANSAS CITY TO TOPEKA AND ON INTO EAST CENTRAL KANSAS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAD BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS SINCE 530 PM. AS THE TUNDERSTORMS PASED THROUGH TOPEKA.. 1/2 INCH HAIOL WAS REPORTED. AS THEY MOVE INTO THE METRO AREA HEAVY RAIN WITH SOME LOCAL FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED..ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS AND SOME SMALL HAIL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE INTO THE WEST PARTS OF THE CITY BY 7 PM. ELSEWHERE..SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDRSTORMS CONTINUED OVER SOUTHEAST KANSAS..SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL MISSOURI. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST 25 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.