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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Topeka, KS

May 14, 1986Osborne County, Russell County, Kansas

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 14, 4:45 PM CDTHail 0.75Russell, KS
May 14, 4:49 PM CDTHail 0.75Osborne, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1986-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 710 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1986-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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TTAA00 KCNK 142115
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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 3:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsborne, Russell57 min
May 14, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPRepublic28 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.