Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1986, 7:35 PM CDT for Kingman County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1986, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1986, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kingman 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 2614 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 9.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 230036 SVRICT KSC095-230115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 735 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL KINGMAN AT 735 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KINGMAN..THIS STORM WAS SHOWING VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT. THIS DANGEROUS STORM THREATENS LAKE RECREATIONAL AREAS WITHIN THE WARNING AREA. CAMPERS AND BOATERS SHOULD MOVE TO SAFETY IMMEDIATELY. RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINS IN THE WARNING AREA WILL LIKELY FLOOD STREAMS AND LOW AREAS. BE CAREFUL DRIVING AND DON/T TRY TO CROSS WATER RUSHING OVER ROADS. THIS STORM INDICATED LARGE HAIL AND POSSIBLE DAMAGING WINDS ALONG WITH EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINS
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, Jun 22, 5:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 510 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1986 AT 505 PM..ISOLATED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKLEY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL..BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WIND. ONE STORM WAS CENTERED 5 MILES NORTH OF EUREKA..ANOTHER 20 MILES WEST OF CHANUTE. A THIRD STORM WAS 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ANTHONY..ABOUT OVER CALDWELL..AND ANOTHER WAS JUST MOVING OOT OF ARKANSAS CITY TO THE NORTHEAST. THESE STORMS WERE DEVELOPING AND DISSIPATING RAPIDLY AND WITH RANDOM SLOW MOVEMENT. RYAN
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 5:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 525 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1986 ...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 5 25 PM CDT...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS AND SOME SMALL HAIL. GUST WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH MAY ALSO OCCUR WITH A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY DRIFT ACROSS THE WICHITA AREA DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS WITH THE BES'T CHANCE OF ANY MOISTURE EXPECTED FROM THE SOUTHWEST ACROSS TO THE SOUTHEAST PARTS OF THE CITY. THERE HAS BEEN VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT NOTICED IN THE STORMS AND THE SHOWERS APPEAR TO BE DEVELOPING AND DISSIPATING QUITE RAPIDLY.
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 7:08 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 705 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1986 AT 700 PM NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED ALONG A LINE FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF MEDICINE LODGE TO WICHITA TO BEAUMONT TO JUST WEST OF CHANUTE. AN ISOLATED STORM WAS MIDWAY BETWEEN INDEPENDENCE AND OSWEGO. MANY OF THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND ALL WERE CAUSING VERY HEAVY RAIN. SOME MAY CREATE STRONG GUSTY WIND. DUE TO THE VERY SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS..THEY MAY CAUSE FLOODING IN URBAN AND LOW LAYING AREAS. RYAN
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.