Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 1986, 9:01 PM CST for Butler County, Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 1986, 9:01 PM CST (03:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 1986, 9:30 PM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Butler County, KS, Sedgwick 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2274 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 430 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 KICT 180301 SVRICT KSC015-173-180330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 901 PM CST MON MAR 17 1986 EXPIRES 930 PM CST COUNTIES AFFECTED KS BUTLER SEDGWICK THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS...BUTLER AND SEDGWICK AT 900 PM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTH PARTS OF BUTLER AND SEDGWICK COUNTIES. THE WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS HAVE APPROACHED SEVERE LIMITS..WITH 54 MPH GUSTS AT THE MID CONTINTENT AIRPORT AT WICHITA. REMEMBER..SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES 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. STEADHAM
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, Mar 17, 6:37 PM CST, 2 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 635 PM CST MON MAR 17 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE NORTHEAST ONE QUARTER OF KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM TONIGHT.... AT 630 PM...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND EAST PARTS OF KANSAS WITH SOME INCREASE IN INTENSITIES IN THE CENTRAL AREAS. ONE AREA 55 MILES WIDE WAS WEST OF A LINE FROM BELLEVILLE TO 10 MILES EAST OF GREAT BEND CONTINUING SOUTH TO THE OKLAHOMA BORDER NEAR AETNA KANSAS. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE IN A NARROW BAND THAT RAN FROM NEAR GREAT BEND SOUTH FOR ABOUT 50 MILES. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH. A 45 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS SOUTHEAST O F A LINE FROM JUST WEST OF ST JOSEPH MISSOURI TO TOPEKA TO 30 MILES EAST OF WINFIELD. THESE WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. JT
Special weather statement, Mar 17, 7:06 PM CST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 705 PM CST MON MAR 17 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE NORTHEAST ONE QUARTER OF KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM TONIGHT.... AT 705 PM...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND EAST PARTS OF KANSAS WITH SOME INCREASE IN INTENSITIES IN THE CENTRAL AREAS. ONE AREA 55 MILES WIDE WAS WEST OF A LINE FROM BELLEVILLE TO NEAR ELLSWORTH KANSAS TO JUST WEST OF PRATT TO ALVA OKLAHOMA. STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN AN AREA 10 MILES WIDE FROM NEAR WILSON KANSAS TO NEAR GREAT BEND TO JUST SOUTHWEST OF ST JOHNS KANSAS. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. IN EASTERN KANSAS AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS 35 MILES WIDE WAS CENTERED FROM NEAR LAWRENCE KANSAS TO MELVERNE RESERVOIR TO NEAR SEADN KANSAS WITH A FEW SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS NEAR CHANUTE KANSAS. THESE WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 <MILES AN HOUR. ELAND
Special weather statement, Mar 17, 7:40 PM CST, 1 hour 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 735 PM CST MON MAR 17 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE NORTHEAST ONE QUARTER OF KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM TONIGHT.... AT 730 PM...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE HAIL WERE MOVING FROM SOUTHWEST KANSAS AND NORTH OKLAHOMA INTO CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. AT LEAST THREE VERY STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTHWEST OF PRATT AND JUST WEST OF MEDICINE LODGE. THESE STORMS WERE SHOWING VERY HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF AN OVERALL AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT WAS 75 MILES WIDE...ALL WEST OF A LINE FROM THE NEBRASKA BORDER NEAR WASHINGTON KANSAS TO PRATT TOX THE OKLAHOMA BORDER SOUTH OF ANTHONY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 35 MPH. JT
Special weather statement, Mar 17, 8:12 PM CST, 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 805 PM CST MON MAR 17 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE NORTHEAST ONE QUARTER OF KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM TONIGHT.... AT 800 PM...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE RUMBLING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS MAINLY IN A 30 MILE WIDE AREA BETWEEN PRATT AND LYONS. THESE STORMS WERE SHOWING VERY HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE HAIL. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST FOR RENO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. AN OVERALL AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS WEST OF A LINE FROM WASHINGTON KANSAS TO NEAR HUTCHINSON TO JUST WEST OF ARKANSAS CITY. SEVERAL OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE ENTERING HARPER COUNTY AND T|HESE WILL MOVE INTO WEST SUMNER AND SOUTHWEST SEDGWICK COUNTIES BY 8 30 PM. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS MOVE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 35 MPH. JT
Special weather statement, Mar 17, 8:23 PM CST, 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 820 PM CST MON MAR 17 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE NORTHEAST ONE QUARTER OF KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM TONIGHT.... AT 815 RADAR INDICATED SOME RAPIDLY BUILDING THUNDERSTORMS IN THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF SUMNER AND HARPER COUNTIES IN EXTREME SOUTHERN KANSAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SOME SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR RENO COUNTY WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 900 PM. ELAND
Special weather statement, Mar 17, 8:35 PM CST, 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 830 PM CST MON MAR 17 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE NORTHEAST ONE QUARTER OF KANSAS UNTIL 10 PM TONIGHT.... AT 830 PM...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE STORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL WERE LOCATED IN TWO NARROW BANDS..ONE BETWEEN ST JOHNS AND A POINT ABOUT 30 MILES NORTH OF HUTCHINSON..THE OTHER WAS BETWEEN MULVANE AND JUST TO THE EAST OF HARPER IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. OVERALL THE AREA ABOUT 40 MILES WIDE IN THE NORTH TO 65 MILES WIDE ACROSS THE SOUTH. IT WAS WEST OF A LINE FROM WASHINGTON TO HUTCHINSON TO ARKANSAS CITY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. JT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 8:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 58 min |
| Mar 17, 9:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 45 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.