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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Topeka, KS

May 16, 1986Rice County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1986, 5:23 PM CDT for Rice County, Kansas. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 16, 1986, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1986, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Rice 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 162 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 12:00Z on 1986-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1986-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 211 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
211 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
192 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.5

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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

Local storm report, May 16, 1:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
130 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1986

ALL TIMES CDT AND AREA IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

1255 AM   GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AT ALTON IN WESTERN OSBORNE COUNTY.
125  AM   GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL IN OSBORNE.
504  AM   ONE HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS TO 40 MPH AT KENSINGTON IN
          SMITH COUNTY.
515  AM   TORNADO REPORTED FROM 1 MILE SOUTH OF GAYLORD TO 5 MILES
          SOUTHEAST OF SMITH CENTER IN SMITH COUNTY.  CONSIDERABLE
          DAMAGE TO CROPS FROM HAIL AND NUMEROUS POWER POLES DOWN.
517  AM   3/4 INCH HAIL IN SMITH CENTER.
630  AM   ONE INCH HAIL AND WINDS TO 50 MPH AT BELOIT IN MITCHELL.
825  AM   11/2 INCH HAIL 1 MILE NORTH OF GREENLEAF IN W[ASHINGTON
          COUNTY.

          HEAVY RAINS OF OVER TWO INCHES ACCOMPAINED MOST OF THE
          SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.

ADAMS 1844
Special weather statement, May 16, 2:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS
211 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1986

AT 210 PM RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 5 MILES
NORTHEAST OF DELPHOS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
BRIF BUT VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS
THUNDERSTORM  AS IT MOVES TO NORTHERN CLAY COUNTY BY 3 PM CDT.

AT 210PM MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED BY
THE OTTAWA COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE 15 MILES SOUTH OF COUNCORDIA.
PETERSEN
Special weather statement, May 16, 3:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
330 KPM CDT FRI MAY 16 1986

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM THIS EVENING FOR PORTIONS
OF NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST KANSAS...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS AT 330 PM LOCATED IN CLAY
COUNTY WESTWARD INTO SOUTHERN CLOUD AND NORTHERN OTTAWA COUNTY
ROUGHLY IN AN AREA BOUNDED BY CLAY CENTER TO CONCORDIA TO MINNEAPOLIS
AND BACK TO CONCORDIA IS DRIFTING NORTHEASTWARD.  THIS STORM WILL
LIKELY CROSS NORTHERN RILEY INTO MARSHALL COUNTY BETWEEN 400 TO 430 PM.
THESE STORMS SHOULD BE MONITORED CLOSELY AND MAY REQUIRE WARNINGS
AS THEY MOVE INTO THE NORTHWEST EDGE OF NORTHEAST KANSAS.
SHIDELER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 12:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsborne57 min
May 16, 5:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPSmith53 min
May 16, 5:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPPottawatomie51 min
May 16, 6:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Pottawatomie, Riley58 min
May 16, 6:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPNemaha58 min
May 16, 6:40 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPMarshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Riley4 hr
May 16, 6:40 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPBrown4 hr
May 16, 7:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAtchison57 min
May 16, 8:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPWashington61 min
May 16, 8:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay32 min
May 16, 9:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPRiley30 min
May 16, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Cloud57 min
May 16, 3:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCloud, Ottawa53 min
May 16, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay50 min
May 16, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Riley45 min
May 16, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPGeary45 min
May 16, 4:08 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPRiley37 min
May 16, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPWashington55 min
May 16, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPEllsworth, Saline55 min
May 16, 4:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay57 min
May 16, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Pottawatomie, Riley50 min
May 16, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPGeary50 min
May 16, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMcPherson61 min
May 16, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson, Saline60 min
May 16, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPRiley41 min
May 16, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMcPherson42 min
May 16, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPPottawatomie52 min
May 16, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson42 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.