Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1986, 1:19 AM CDT for Chautauqua County, Elk County, Montgomery County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 1986, 1:19 AM CDT (06:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1986, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chautauqua County, KS, Elk County, KS, Montgomery 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 2272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1074 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
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
Local storm report, May 5, 10:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
1045 PM CDT MON MAY 5 1986
DATE TIME CDT EVENT
556 PM NWS WEATHER SPOTTER..GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL 5N 11/2E
AUGUSTA.
645 PM AUGUSTA P.D...GOLFBALL HAIL.
730-800 PM AUGUSTA P.D. ..6 S AUGUSTA 4.5 INCHES RAIN GOLFBALL
HAIL KNOCKED GAUGE APART.
831 PM COWLEY COUNTY C.D. ..3/4 INCH HAIL UDALL
836 PM COWLEY COUNTY C.D. ..1 INCH HAIL UDALL
903 PM CHANNEL 3 OBSERVER..6.5 INCHES RAIN BETWEEN AUGUSTA
AND DOUGLASS.
904 PM WELLINGTON P.D. ..1 INCH HAIL 1 WEST WELLINGTON
906 PM WELLINGTON P.D. ..3/4 INCH HAIL IN WELLINGTON
906 PM CHANNEL 3 OBSERVER..1 INCH HAIL 3 NE MULVANE
944 PM CHANNEL 3 OBSERVER..2.5 INCHES RAIN IN WELLINGTON
2-3 FEET WATER IN STREETS OF WELLINGTON
1000 PM COWLEY COUNTY C.D. ..TENNIS BALL HAIL 1 W OXFORD
1028 PM COWLEY COUNTY C.D. ..11/4 INCH HAIL OCCASIONAL
TENNIS BALL HAIL IN OXFORD
1035 PM COWLEY COUNTY C.D. ..GOLFBALL TO SOFTBALL H?AIL
JUST EAST OF OXFORD.
END
JTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 59 min |
| May 5, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 22 min |
| May 5, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 31 min |
| May 5, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick, Sumner | 54 min |
| May 5, 9:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Sumner | 32 min |
| May 5, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 58 min |
| May 5, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 58 min |
| May 5, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 31 min |
| May 5, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 61 min |
| May 6, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua, Elk | 58 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.