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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Topeka, KS

April 13, 1986Ottawa County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 1986, 6:53 PM CST for Ottawa County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 13, 1986, 6:53 PM CST (00:53 UTC)
Expired
Apr 13, 1986, 7:45 PM CST
In force
52 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1986-04-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 318 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1986-04-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 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
318 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3658 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 13, 6:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJewell, Mitchell48 min
Apr 13, 6:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPRepublic48 min
Apr 13, 7:16 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Cloud, Washington44 min
Apr 13, 7:36 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson54 min
Apr 13, 7:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMcPherson47 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.