Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1986, 2:17 PM CDT for Cowley County, Sedgwick County, Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 58 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, 2:17 PM CDT (19:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1986, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cowley County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner 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, 2:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Sedgwick, 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
Ok Cty/Will Rgrs, OK (KOKC), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 2660 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 743 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 141917 SVRICT KSC035-173-191-142015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 217 PM CDT WED MAY 14 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...COWLEY...EASTERN SEDGWICK AND SUMNER AT 200 PM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY RADAR 8 MILES NORTH OF WELLINGTON AND IN WESTERN COWLEY COUNTY NEAR WINFIELD AND ARKANSAS CITY..ALSO ALONG THE KANSAS/OKLAHOMA BORDER FROM 18 MILES WEST OF COLDWATER TO COFFEYVILLE. MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS WARNING IS FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL...FIND ADEQUATE SHELTER NOW...AND REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING...SO BE ON ALERT. FH
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, 1 hour 51 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, 1 hour 25 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
Special weather statement, May 14, 1:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 110 PM CDT WED MAY 14 1986 AT 103 PM CIVIL DEFENSE PERSONS REPORTED HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL 1/4 INCH IN DIAMETER AT WINFILED KANSAS. ELAND
Special weather statement, May 14, 1:32 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 127 PM CDT WED MAY 14 1986 AT 123 PM INDEPENDENCE POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED HAIL 1/4 INCH IN DIAMETER IN THE CITY OF INDEPENDENCE ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN. GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL OCCURED 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF INDEPENDENCE AT 1:23 PM. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES FOR LABETTE AND SOUTHEAST MONTOGOMERY COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 200 PM THIS AFTERNOON. ELAND
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, 1:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Montgomery | 59 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, 2:21 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.