Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1986, 4:30 AM CDT for Butler County, Cowley County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1986, 4:30 AM CDT (09:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1986, 5:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Butler County, KS, Cowley 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 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 3154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1173 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
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, Jul 13, 2:06 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 200 AM CDT SUN JUL 13 1986 A HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVED OVER WICHITA MID CONTINENT AIRPORT AT 150 AM AND IN THE TEN MINUTE PERIOD BETWEEN 150 AM AND 200 AM THE AIRPORT RECEIVED A QUARTER INCH OF RAIN. THIS THUNDERSTORMS WAS PART OF A LARGE SCATTERED AREA OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED ACROSS SOUTHERN KANSAS. BRIEF INTERMITTENT HEAVY RAINS SOME WITH SMALL HAIL IS LIKELY ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL AROUND 400AM ELAND
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 2:43 AM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 240 AM CDT SUN JUL 13 1986 AT 230AM INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHERN KANSAS. THE AREA WAS 60 MILES WIDE AND CENTERED ON A LINE FROM GREAT BEND TO WICHITA TO COFFEYVILLE INTO OKLAHOMA NEAR WELCH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS..ARE POSSIBLY PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS..HAIL..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND DANGEROUS LIGHNING AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF LARGE HAIL. MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN SOUTH WICHITA AT HAYSVILLE SINCE 130 AM. MOVEMENT WAS EASTERLY AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. FH
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 3:11 AM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 308 AM CDT SUN JUL 13 1986 AT 305AM INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THE AREA WAS 40 MILES WIDE AND CENTERED ON A LINE FROM WEST OF HUTCHINSON NEAR SYLVIA TO WICHITA TO INDEPENDENCE TO BAXTER SPRINGS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS..ARE POSSIBLY PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS..HAIL..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND DANGEROUS LIGHNING AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF LARGE HAIL. MOVEMENT WAS EAST SOUTHEASTERLY AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. FH
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 3:31 AM CDT, 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 325 AM CDT SUN JUL 13 1986 ...HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL LIKELY IN NORTHWEST SEDGWICK COUNTY... AT 325 AM AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ANDALE KANSAS IN NORTHWEST SEDGWICK COUNTY. HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR ACROSS SEDGWICK COUNTY . THIS THUNDERSTORM IS PART OF A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS SOUTHEASTWARD THROUGH SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. ELAND
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 3:40 AM CDT, 50 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 340 AM CDT SUN JUL 13 1986 AT 330AM INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA. THE AREA WAS 55 TO 65 MILES WIDE AND CENTERED ON A LINE FROM SOUTHWEST OF HUTCHINSON NEAR SYLVIA TO SOUTH OF EL DORADO NEAR AUGUSTA TO COFFEYVILLE AND INTO OKLAHOMA NEAR AFTON. IN KANSAS THE THUNDERSTORMS..WERE POSSIBLY PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS..HAIL.. STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND DANGEROUS LIGHNING AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL. MOVEMENT WAS EAST SOUTHEASTERLY AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. FH
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 3:56 AM CDT, 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 355 AM CDT SUN JUL 13 1986 AT 353AM AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER WEST WICHITA. VERY HEAVY RAINS..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..H AIL..AND VERY DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THIS THUNDERSTORM AS IT MOVES OVER THE CITY. FLOODING OF STREETS AND ROADWAYS IS POSSIBLE. FH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 4:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 57 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.