Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1986, 3:06 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1986, 3:06 PM CDT (20:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1986, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1062 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 2 hours 40 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, 2 hours 14 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 54 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, 1 hour 34 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
Special weather statement, May 14, 3:01 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
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</html>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, 2:17 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 |
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.