Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1986, 7:00 PM CDT for Cowley County, Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1986, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1986, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cowley 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Ok Cty/Will Rgrs, OK (KOKC), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 1900 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 070000 SVRICT KSC035-191-070100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 700 PM CDT SUN JUL 06 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS...EAST HALF SUMNER AND COWLEY AT 700 PM CDT .. RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SLOWLY FROM SOUTH HAVEN TO UDALL. 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 DONk/T TRY TO CROSS WATER RUSHING OVER ROADS. LR
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, Jul 6, 3:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 335 PM CDT SUN JUL 6 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS FOR THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON... AT 335 PM AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF PRATT TO HUTCHINSON TO MC PHERSON. OTHER HEAVY THUNDERSTORNS WERE BETWEEN EMPORIA AND TOPEKA. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG AND TO THE NORTH OF A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT EXTENDING ACROSS KANSAS. THE FRONT EXTENDED FROM COLDWATER TO JUST SOUTH OF HUTCHINSON TO EMPORIA TO NEAR KANSAS CITY. SOME URBAN AND LOWLAND FLOODING IS EXPECTED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE STRONGER STORMS AND PERSOwNS IN THE AFFECTED AREA SHOULD USE CAUTION AND BE ALERT FOR ANY RAPID RISES ON SMALL STREAMS AND ESPECIALLY IN LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS. RYAN
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 4:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 415 PM CDT SUN JUL 6 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS FOR THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON... AT 410 PM THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED RAPIDLY THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS..WELL AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL AKNSAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST/NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. IN THE CENTRAL KANSAS AREA..THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURING OVER ALLFEADY SATURADED GROUND AND MAY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS..THE HEAVY THUNDERSTOMS MAY WILL CAUSE HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF HEAVY RAIN AND MA6 CAUSE URBAN AND LOW LYING AREA FLOODING. RYAN
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 4:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 435 PM CDT SUN JUL 6 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS FOR TONIGHT... AT 330 PM THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED THROUGH CENTRAL AND SOOTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THUNDERSTORMS IN WEST RENO COUNTY HAD DUMPED OVER AN INCH OF RAIN IN LESS THAN ONE HOUR. THE THUNDER/ STORMS IN RENO COUNTY COVERED MOST OF THE NORTH AND WEST HALF OF THE COUNTY..FROM JUST SOUTH OF HUTCHINSON TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THAT COUNTY. SOME URBAN AND LOW LYING FLOODING IS LIKLEY. THE RAPIDLY DEVELOPED THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS..SOUOTHWEST AND SOUTH OF WICHITA AND FROM WICHITA..NORTHEAST WILL CAUSE HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN THAT MAY CAUSE URBAN AND LOW LYING AREA FLOODING. RYAN
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 5:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 500 PM CDT SUN JUL 6 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS FOR TONIGHT... AT 500 PM AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WICHITA TO 10 MILES EAST OF WICHITA TO 5 MILES EAST OF FLORENCE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST/NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH AND WERE DUMPING VERY HEAVY RAIN..THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH OR MORE..AS THEY PASSED THROUGH. A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER THE HUTCHINSON AREA AND OTHERS NORTHEAST OF HILLSBORO. PEOPLE THROUGHOOT CENTRAL..SOUTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR RAPID RISES IN SMALL STREAMS AND URBAN AND LOW LYING AREA FLOODING. RYAN
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 5:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 535 PM CDT SUN JUL 6 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS FOR TONIGHT... AT 530 PM A LINE OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 15 MILES WEST OF ENID OKLAHOMA TO CALDWELL KANSAS TO WELLINGTON TO UDALL TO COTTONWOOD FALLS. THE LINE WAS ABOUT 15 MILES WIDE. THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THE LINE WERE MOVING TO THE EAST/NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE CAUSING HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN..WIND GUSTS TO 40 OR 50 MPH AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. THEY WILL DUMP AN INCH OR MORE OF RAIN IN A VERY SHORT TIME. THIS WILL CAUSE RAPID RISES IN SMALL STREAMS AND URBAN AND LOW LYING AREA FLOODING. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL KANSAS HAD DECREASED IN INTENSITY BUT MAY STILL CAUSE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WIND. THE THUDERSTORMS WERE NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM ENID OKLAHOMA TO BEAUMONT KANSAS TO 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TOPEKA. RYAN
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 6:42 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 635 PM CDT SUN JUL 6 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS FOR TONIGHT... AT 630 PM A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM SOUTHWEST COWLEY COUNTY NEAR CALDWELL TO UDALL..ACROSS NORTHWEST COWLEY COUNTY ..THROUGH SOUTHERN BUTLER COUNTY TO JUST NORTH OF BEAUMONT. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST/NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WERE PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WIND..HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. A TORNADO WAS REPORTED IN NORTHWEST COWLEY COONTY SHORTLY AFTER 6 PM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL KANSAS HAD DECREASED IN INTENSITY BUT MAY STILL CAUSE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSPTY WIND. THE THUDERSTORMS WERE NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM ENID OKLAHOMA TO ARKANSAS CITY TO EUREKA TO TOPEKA. RYAN
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.