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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Wichita, KS

March 31, 1986Reno County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 1986, 7:52 PM CST for Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 31, 1986, 7:52 PM CST (01:52 UTC)
Expired
Mar 31, 1986, 8:50 PM CST
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Reno 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 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 161 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 00:00Z on 1986-04-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 749 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1986-04-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
749 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2309 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KICT 010152
SVRICT
KSC155-010250-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
752 PM CST MON MAR 31 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 850 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY OF


SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...RENO

AT 750 PM A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES WIDE WAS LOCATED
FROM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON TO NEAR SYLVIA IN WESTERN RENO
COUNTY. THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES
AN HOUR.

THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE FREQUENT..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..
LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN THAT CAN QUICKLY
FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS.

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.

 THE TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL KANSAS UNdTIL 10PM.

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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.