Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1986, 4:15 PM CDT for Osborne County, Russell 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
- May 14, 1986, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1986, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Osborne County, KS, Russell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 4:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Russell, KS | |
| May 14, 4:49 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Osborne, 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 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 710 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1198 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCNK 142115 SVRCNK KSC167-141-142215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 415 PM CDT WED MAY 14 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...RUSSELL AND OSBORNE AT 415 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSSELL TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RUSSELL MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM..PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY AND PREPARE FOR STRONG DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS. SCHNEIDERd
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, May 14, 2:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 215 PM CDT WED MAY 14 1986 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 210 PM CDT TOPEKA RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG A LINE FROM FORT SCOTT..TO 5 MILES NORTH OF IOLA..TO 8 MILES SOUTH OF BURLINGTON. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING NORTH/ EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS 4 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF BURLINGTON. SMALL HAIL..GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY AS THIS LINE OF STORMS MOVES THROUGH COFFEY.. ANDERSON..AND LINN COUNTIES BETWEEN 215 PM AND 300 PM THIS AFTERNOON. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH..TAKE APPROPRIATE PRECAUTIONS. MCNULTY
Special weather statement, May 14, 3:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONCORDIA KS 300 PM CDT WED MAY 14 1986 THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER WIDELY SCATTERED AREAS OF CENTRAL KANSAS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING SOME HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WERE 15 MILES WESTSOUTHWEST OF RUSSELL 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF MCPHERSON AND 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ABILENE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE GENERAL AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM COUNCIL GROVE TO ABILENE TO LYONS TO RUSSELL TO NEAR HILL CITY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE IN STRENGTH ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS SO PERSONS ACROSS THE AREA BE AWARE OF THE LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS AND TAKE ANY ACTION NECESSARY SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOP. ADAMS 2000
Special weather statement, May 14, 3:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 305 PM CDT WED MAY 14 1986 AT 255 PM CDT TOPEKA RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS TO THE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MOUND CITY..TO GARNETT..TO THE EASTERN EDGE OF JOHN REDMOND RESERVOIR. OTHER INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING BETWEEN ABILENE AND COUNCIL GROVE RESERVOIR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. HAIL..STRONG GUSTY..AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. BETWEEN 315 PM AND 400 PM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO FRANKLIN COUNTY AND APPROACH THE CITY OF OTTAWA..AND INTO GEARY COUNTY TO THE AREA OF JUNCTION CITY. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE( ALERT AS THESE THUNDESTORMS APPROACH. MCNULTY
Special weather statement, May 14, 3:49 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 345 PM CDT WED MAY 14 1986 AT 340 PM CDT TOPEKA RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS TO THE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM OSAWATOMIE..TO THE NORTH SHORE OF JOHN REDMOND RESERVOIR..TO COTTONWOOD FALLS..TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JUNCTION CITY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE MORE INTENSE THUNDESTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER JOHN REDMOND RESERVIOR ..AND AROUND ABILENE. AS THESE STORMS MOVED THROUGH HERINGTON..ONE- HALF INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED. BETWEEN 400 PM AND 430 PM THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO OTTAWA..OSAGE CITY..EMPORIA..COUNCIL GROVE..JUNCTION CITY AND MANHATTAN ..THESE A>REAS SHOULD PREPARE FOR SMALL HAIL..GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. PERSONS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT AS THESE STORMS APPROACH. MCNULTY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osborne, Russell | 57 min |
| May 14, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 28 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.