Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1986, 6:41 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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
- Jun 27, 1986, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1986, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 6:47 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Butler, 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 272341 SVRICT KSC015-280030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 641 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...NORTHERN BULTER AT 641 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHWEST BUTLER COUNTY 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELDORADO..*.MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY THUNDERSTORM WINDS AND POSSIBLY LARGE HAIL. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE TO SAFETY. STEADHAM
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
Local storm report, Jun 27, 5:49 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
545 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 1986
DATE TIME CDT EVENT
27 512 PM 1/2 TO 3/4 INCH HAIL AT WALDRON AND 35 TO 40 MPH
WINDS AT ANTHONY. HARPER COUNTY CD.
523 PM 7 MILES WEST OF ANTHONY VERY HEAVY RAIN AND 3/4 INCH
HAIL. VERY HEAVY RAIN 2 MILES SOUTH OF ANTHONY AT
521 PM. ANTHONY PD.
530 PM 50 MPH WINDS AT MULfVANE. MULVANE PD.
540 PM 47 MPH WINDS AT ANTHONY AT 526 PM. HARPER CO CD.
STEADHAMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 57 min |
| Jun 27, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 57 min |
| Jun 27, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick | 51 min |
| Jun 27, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chautauqua | 41 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.