Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1986, 2:37 PM CDT for Sedgwick County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1986, 2:37 PM CDT (19:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1986, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sedgwick 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 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 662 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 1:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Allen | 24 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 1986Every tornado warning in 1986Tornadoes 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.