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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Wichita, KS

June 27, 1986Chautauqua County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1986, 5:28 PM CDT for Chautauqua County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 27, 1986, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 1986, 6:25 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Chautauqua 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 212 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1986-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1494 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1986-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 134 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1494 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
797 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
3.4

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper57 min
Jun 27, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick51 min
Jun 27, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler49 min
Jun 27, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua41 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.