Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 28, 1986, 6:45 PM CDT for Jewell County, Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min. 2 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
- Sep 28, 1986, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 28, 1986, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jewell County, KS, Mitchell 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 28, 6:47 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Mitchell, KS | |
| Sep 28, 7:32 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Jewell, 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 28, 4:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 420 PM CDT SUN SEP 28 1986 ....SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM CDT THIS EVENING... AT 415 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND LARGE THUNDER/ STORMS IN CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THE AREA WAS SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM YORK NEBRASKA SOUTHWEST THROUGH OSBORNE KANSAS TO HAYS. THE STORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY AND MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR LINCOLN KANSAS. ADCOCK
Special weather statement, Sep 28, 4:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 457 PM CDT SUN SEP 28 1986 ....SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 11 PM CDT THIS EVENING... AT 457 PM CST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM BRAINARD NEBRASKA TO 20 MILES WEST OF HAYS KANSAS TO 10 MILES EAST OF MARYSVILLE KANSAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR MANKATO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OSBORNE 10 MILES SOSUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA AND 10 MILES NORTH OF WASHINGTON. THEY WERE MOVING NORTHEST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR, STAPLETON
Special weather statement, Sep 28, 5:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 504 PM CDT THU SEP 25 1986 AT 504PM CDT AN AREA OF STRONG TO INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS...ABOUT 15 MILES WIDE...STRETCHED FROM AROUND 30 MILES SOUTH OF CONCORDIA TO NORTHWEST OF MARYSVILLE ALONG THE NEBRASKA BORDER. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 35 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS OVER 40 MPH DEADLY LIGHTNING AND SOME HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS AREA OF STORMS AS IT MOVES OVER PART OF NORTHEAST KANSAS THIS EVENING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A PORTION OF NORTHEAST KANSAS..NOT INCLUDING THE TOPEKA AREA...UNTIL 11PM CDT. ALSO A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THE NIGHT FOR PART OF EASTCENTRAL KANSAS. KAYS
Special weather statement, Sep 28, 5:59 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 558 PM CDT THU SEP 25 1986 AT 558PM CDT AN AREA OF STRONG TO INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS...ABOUT 15 MILES WIDE...STRETCHED FROM NORTHWEST NEMAHA COUNTY NORTHWEST OF SENECA TO MARSHALL COUNTY THEN ON SOUTHWEST NEAR CONCORDIA. THE MOST INTENSE STORMS WERE OVER WESTERN MARSHALL COUNTY JUST SOUTHWEST OF MARYSVILLE AND OVER EASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY. AT 545PM CDT THE MARSHALL COUNTY SHERIFF IN MARYSVILLE REPORTED GUSTY WINDS AND PEA SIZE HAIL ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 40 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS OVER 40 MPH SOME HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A PORTION OF NORTHEAST KANSAS..NOT INCLUDING THE TOPEKA AREA...UNTIL 11PM CDT. ALSO A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THE NIGHT FOR PART OF EASTCENTRA:L KANSAS. KAYS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 11:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Coffey, Franklin, Lyon, Osage | 3 hr |
| Sep 28, 2:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 50 min |
| Sep 28, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 56 min |
| Sep 28, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 54 min |
| Sep 28, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 63 min |
| Sep 28, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 60 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.