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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1986, 5:58 PM CDT for Ellis County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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
- May 7, 1986, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1986, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ellis 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 6:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Ellis, 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -451 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 072258 RRA SVRGLD KSC051-080000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 558 PM CDT WED MAY 7 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF CENTRAL KANSAS...EASTERN ELLIS AT 600PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF LA CROSSE IN RUSH COUNTY MOVING NORTH 30 MPH. THIS WARNING IS FOR THE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. FIND ADEQUATE SHELTER NOW. A TORNADE WATCH IS IN EFFECT SO BE PREPARED IN CASE A TORNADO DEVELOPS.
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, May 7, 4:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 415 PM CDT WED MAY 7 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 132 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF WESTERN KANSAS. AT 420 PM CDT NO SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM WERE INDICATED BY RADAR OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS. ALTHOUGH NO THUNDERSTORMS HAS OCCURRED OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS..PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA ARE URGED TO STAY ALERT AS STORMS MAY DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FREIBURGER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rush | 59 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.