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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Topeka, KS

May 16, 1986Osborne County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1986, 12:33 AM CDT for Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 57 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 16, 1986, 12:33 AM CDT (05:33 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1986, 1:30 AM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Osborne 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 16, 12:55 AM CDTHail 0.75Osborne, KS
May 16, 1:25 AM 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 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 201 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 1986-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 159 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 00:00Z on 1986-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 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
159 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2208 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 5:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPSmith53 min
May 16, 5:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPPottawatomie51 min
May 16, 6:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Pottawatomie, Riley58 min
May 16, 6:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPNemaha58 min
May 16, 6:40 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPMarshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Riley4 hr
May 16, 6:40 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPBrown4 hr
May 16, 7:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAtchison57 min
May 16, 8:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPWashington61 min
May 16, 8:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay32 min
May 16, 9:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPRiley30 min
May 16, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Cloud57 min
May 16, 3:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCloud, Ottawa53 min
May 16, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPClay50 min
May 16, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Riley45 min
May 16, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPGeary45 min
May 16, 4:08 PM CDTTornado WarningTOPRiley37 min
May 16, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPWashington55 min
May 16, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPEllsworth, Saline55 min
May 16, 4:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay57 min
May 16, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Pottawatomie, Riley50 min
May 16, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPGeary50 min
May 16, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMcPherson61 min
May 16, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPRice67 min
May 16, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson, Saline60 min
May 16, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPRiley41 min
May 16, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMcPherson42 min
May 16, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPPottawatomie52 min
May 16, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson42 min

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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.