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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Wichita, KS

May 8, 1986Butler County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1986, 8:31 AM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 8, 1986, 8:31 AM CDT (13:31 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 1986, 9:30 AM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Butler 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 269 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1986-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2244 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1986-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -22 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2244 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
504 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno26 min
May 8, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman57 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.