Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1986, 3:50 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1986, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1986, 4:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rawlins 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 524 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 968 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jun 4, 12:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 300 PM CDT WED JUN 4 1986 AT 300 PM CDT SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHWEST KANSAS...SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND EASTERN COLORADO. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS WERE 10 MILES EAST AND 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF ST FRANCIS IN CHEYENNE AND RAWLINS COUNTIES... 15 MILES EAST OF SHARON SPRINGS IN LOGAN COUNTY AND NEAR HILL CITY IN GRAHAM COUNTY. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND SOME SMALL HAIL WILL OCCUR WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER MUCH OF NORTHWEST KANSAS AND WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP INT;O THE EVENING HOURS. WORKMAN
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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.