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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 189, NWS Topeka, KS

September 10, 1986Ottawa County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1986, 8:57 PM CDT for Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report 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: Sep 10, 1986, 8:57 PM CDT (01:57 UTC)
Expired: Sep 10, 1986, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Ottawa 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	Remark
Sep 10, 9:30 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Ottawa, 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 248 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: 951 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1683 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -1.4

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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

Special weather statement, Sep 10, 5:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
510 PM CDT WED SEP 10 1986

...TORNADO WATCH FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL 11PM...

A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST KANSAS UNTIL
11PM CDT TONIGHT. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE CITIES OF TOPEKA...MANHATTAN
...JUNCTION CITY...EMPORIA AND ATCHISON.

AT 510PM A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REACHED FROM WYMORE NEBRASKA
TO NEAR CLAY CENTER TO NEAR SALINA KANSAS. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST
AT ABOUT 20 TO 30 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING ACROSS MARSHALL AND RILEY
COUNTIES BETWEEN 530PM AND 630PM THIS EVENING.

ALTHOUGH NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE YET OCCURRED...HAIL...HIGH
WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY A TORNADO ARE POSSIBLE.

RESIDENTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING
WEATHER CONDITIONS.

AKULOW

Special weather statement, Sep 10, 6:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 10, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Saline	35 min
Sep 10, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	58 min
Sep 10, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Russell	30 min
Sep 10, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Riley	57 min
Sep 10, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lincoln	48 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.