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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Wichita, KS

April 25, 1986Reno County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Apr 25, 1986, 7:06 PM CST for Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 24 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 25, 1986, 7:06 PM CST (01:06 UTC)
Expired
Apr 25, 1986, 7:30 PM CST
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Reno 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 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 161 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1986-04-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 25 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1986-04-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 25, 11:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper, Kingman45 min
Apr 25, 11:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick, Sumner31 min
Apr 26, 12:04 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick56 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.