Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1986, 6:40 PM CDT for Anderson County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1986, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1986, 7:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Anderson 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 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1241 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KTOP 102340 SVRTOP KSC045-059-003-110005- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 640 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 705 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST AND/OR EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... EASTERN DOUGLAS EASTERN FRANKLIN AND ANDERSON AROUND 630 PM CDT A WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH WERE REPORTED BY THE DOUGLAS COUNTY SHERIFF NEAR BALDWIN CITY. ALSO RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE LINE OF STORMS FROM NEAR BALDWIN CITY TO NEAR OTTAWA AND JUST WEST OF GARNETT. THIS WARNING IS FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. FIND ADEQUATE SHELTER NOW. A TORNADOm WATCH IS IN EFFECT SO BE PREPARED IN CASE A TORNADO DEVELOPS. KAYS
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, Jun 10, 4:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 355 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1986 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF EASTERN KANSAS UNTIL 900PM EAST OF A LINE FROM WELLINGTON TO MARION TO MARYSVILLE AND WEST OF A LINE ALONG THE KANSS MISSOURI BORDER TO FORT SCOTT TO OSWEGO. SOME NEW STORM DEVELOPMENT HAS OCCURRED IN NORTHEST KANSAS AND AT 350 PM A LINE OF MODERATE TO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED ALONG A LINE FROM ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEAVENWORTH TO OSKALOOSA TO LAWRENCE. THIS LINE IS MOVING EAST ABOUT 30 MILES PER HOUR WHILE STORMS MOVE NORTHEAST BETWEEN 35 AND 40 MILES PER HOUR. MOST STORMS ALONG THIS LINE ARE PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS ALTHOUGH THE STORM ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEAVENWORTH IS LIKELY PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SOME HAIL. THE ONLY OTHER STORM IN NORTHEAST KANSS WAS ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF HOLTON AND HAS SHOWN SOME DECREASE IN INTENSITY THE SINCE 330 PM. THIS STORM IS PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND MOVING NORTHEAST TOWARD HIAWATHA. OTHER STORMS ARE OCCURRING IN SOUTHCENTRAL KANSAS FROM NEAR MARION SOUTHWARD TO WINFIELD. SHIDELER
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 4:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 434 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1986 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF EASTERN KANSAS UNTIL 900PM EAST OF A LINE FROM WELLINGTON TO MARION TO MARYSVILLE AND WEST OF A LINE ALONG THE KANSAS MISSOURI BORDER TO FORT SCOTT TO OSWEGO. MOST STORMS HAD MOVED OUT OF NORTHEAST KANSAS BY 430 PM THIS AFTERNOON WITH LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS OCCURRING ONLY IN BROWN COUNTY ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HIAWATHA. STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS FAR TO THE SOUTHWEST OF TOPEKA ARE IN A 10 TO 20 MILE LINE FROM COUNCIL GROVE SOUTHWARD TO ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF WINFIELD. IN EASTCENTRAL KANSAS THE STORM LOCATED IN THE COUNCIL GROVE VICINITY IS OF MODERATE TO STRONG INTENSITY AND LIKELY PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS... STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEST ABOUT 30 MILES PER HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN WABAUNSEE COUNTY AND ACROSS LYON COUNTY THROUGH THE EMPORIA AND ESKRIDGE VICINITIES BY 530 PM CDT. SHIDELER
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 505 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1986 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF EASTERN KANSAS UNTIL 900PM EAST OF A LINE FROM WELLINGTON TO MARION TO MARYSVILLE AND WEST OF A LINE ALONG THE KANSAS MISSOURI BORDER TO FORT SCOTT TO OSWEGO. AT 505PM CDT A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHWEST WAUBAUN SEE COUNTY ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF ALMA. IT WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH ABOUTH 35 MILES AND HOUR AN WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS IT TRACKS ACROSS CENTRAL WAUBAUNSEE COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS PART OF A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 20 MILES WIDE THAT EXTENDED FROM ALMA TO EMPORIA TO EUREKA AND SOUTH INTO OKLAHOMA. THE LINE WAS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST WHILE STORMS IN THE LINE WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST ABOUT 35 MILES AN HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS THROUGHOUT THE EVENING=. SCHULTZ
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 515 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1986 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF EASTERN KANSAS UNTIL 900PM EAST OF A LINE FROM WELLINGTON TO MARION TO MARYSVILLE AND WEST OF A LINE ALONG THE KANSAS MISSOURI BORDER TO FORT SCOTT TO OSWEGO. AT 515PM CDT A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM AROUND ST. MARYS TO THE NORTHEAST OF EMPORIA. AROUND 510 PM CDT SOME FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE REPORTED IN THE ALTA VISTA AREA..AND AROUND 515 PM CDT SPOTTERS REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL VERY HEAVY RAINS GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 50 MPH IN THE ESKRIDGE AREA. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE PASSING THROUGH THE TOPEKA AREAA BETWEEN 530 AND 600 PM CDT. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED BUT RESIDENTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR SUDDEN SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPMENT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED ACROSS NORTHEAST KANSAS THROUGHOUT THE EVENING. KAYS
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 530 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1986 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF EASTERN KANSAS UNTIL 900PM EAST OF A LINE FROM WELLINGTON TO MARION TO MARYSVILLE AND WEST OF A LINE ALONG THE KANSAS MISSOURI BORDER TO FORT SCOTT TO OSWEGO. AT 525PM CDT A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM AROUND ST. MARYS THORUGH THE MELVERN RESERVOIR AREA AND JOHN REDMOND RESERVOIR AREA THEN SOUTH INTO SOUTHEAST KANSAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN SOUTHWEST SHAWNEE COUNTY..AND ALSO OVER WABAUNSEE COUNTY NEAR ALMA. ADDITIONAL INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER JOHN REDMOND RESERVOIR. ALL THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 45 MPH. CURRENT MOVEMENT WOULD PLACE THE LEADING EDGE ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR HORTON IN SOUTHERN BROWN COUNTY THROUGH CENTRAL DOUGLAS COUNTY AND WESTERN ANDERSON COUNTY BY 630 PM CDT. VERY HEAVY RAINS GUSTY WINDS OVER 50 *MPH SOME HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS. BOATERS ON CLINTON LAKE IN DOUGLAS COUNTY SHOULD BEGIN TO SEEK SAFETY AS THIS LINE OF STORMS BEGINS TO EFFECT DOUGLAS COUNTY AFTER 6PM CDT. KAYS
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:57 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 555 PM CDT TUE JUN 10 1986 A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF EASTERN KANSAS UNTIL 900PM EAST OF A LINE FROM WELLINGTON TO MARION TO MARYSVILLE AND WEST OF A LINE ALONG THE KANSAS MISSOURI BORDER TO FORT SCOTT TO OSWEGO. AT 550PM CDT INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN SOUTHEAST OSAGE COUNTY AND JUST WEST OF TOPEKA IN WESTERN SHAWNEE COUNTY. VERY HEAVY RAINS SOUTH OF SILVER LAKE ON INTERSTATE 70 HAVE GIVEN LOCALIZED FLOODING ON THE INTERSTATE. ALSO AROUND 548 PM CDT THE OSAGE AND COFFEY COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE BOTH REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING SINCE AROUND 530PM CDT. CTHUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH NORTHEAST AROUND 45 MPH OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS THIS EVENING. KAYS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Atchison, Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee | 38 min |
| Jun 10, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 25 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.