Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1986, 1:01 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 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 14, 1986, 1:01 PM CDT (18:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1986, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery 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 14, 1:27 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Montgomery, 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
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 565 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 793 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
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
Special weather statement, May 14, 12:26 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1225 PM CDT WED MAY 14 1986 AT 1215 PM CST..A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD FORMED ALONG THE KANSAS/ OKLAHOMA BORDER FROM ARKA
Special weather statement, May 14, 12:52 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 1235 PM CDT WED MAY 14 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 161 IS IN EFFECT FOR A SMALL PART OF SOUTH- EAST KANSAS AND PARTS OF NORTHEAST OKLHAOMA AND SOUTHWEST MISSOURI UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... AT 1230 PM CST..A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA NEAR BARTLESVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROhM SOUTH OF STILLWATER TO NEAR ENID...TO WAYNOKA OKLAHOMA. ALL THE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. LACKEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 12:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 63 min |
| May 14, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick, Sumner | 56 min |
| May 14, 1:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 38 min |
| May 14, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 56 min |
| May 14, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery, Neosho | 64 min |
| May 14, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sedgwick, Sumner | 58 min |
| May 14, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 69 min |
| May 14, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 58 min |
| May 14, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Crawford | 17 min |
| May 14, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 54 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.