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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Wichita, KS

April 7, 1986Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 7, 1986, 6:44 PM CST for Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 min. 6 reports 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: Apr 7, 1986, 6:44 PM CST (00:44 UTC)
Expired: Apr 7, 1986, 7:15 PM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Wichita, KS
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cherokee County, KS, Crawford 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
Apr 7, 6:46 PM CST	Tornado F0	Cherokee, KS
Apr 7, 6:55 PM CST	Hail 2.75	Crawford, KS
Apr 7, 6:55 PM CST	Hail 2.75	Crawford, KS
Apr 7, 6:56 PM CST	Tornado F0	Crawford, KS
Apr 7, 7:15 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Cherokee, KS
Apr 7, 7:19 PM CST	Tornado F1	Crawford, 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

Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 105 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1744 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1228 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 229 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.7
Supercell composite: 10.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KICT 080046 COR
TORICT
KSC037-021-080115-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
644 PM CST MON APR 7 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
OF


SOUTHEAST KANSAS...CRAWFORD AND CHEROKEE

AT 640 PM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 8 MILES WEST OF GIRARD KANSAS
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.  DON/T HESITATE.
A FEW SECONDS MIGHT SAVE YOUR LIFE.

ELAND

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 7, 6:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ICT	Woodson	28 min
Apr 7, 6:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Crawford	47 min
Apr 7, 6:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Crawford	33 min
Apr 7, 6:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ICT	Neosho, Wilson, Woodson	27 min
Apr 7, 6:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ICT	Allen, Neosho	22 min
Apr 7, 7:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ICT	Chase, Marion	25 min
Apr 7, 7:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cherokee, Crawford, Labette	56 min
Apr 7, 7:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ICT	Cherokee, Crawford, Labette	29 min
Apr 7, 7:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ICT	Chase	26 min
Apr 7, 8:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Chase, Greenwood	54 min
Apr 7, 9:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Neosho, Wilson	49 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.