Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1987, 4:57 PM CDT for Grant County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report 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 3, 1987, 4:57 PM CDT (21:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1987, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grant 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 3, 5:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Grant, 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -366 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1199 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 032158 SVRDDC KSC067-032300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 457 PM CDT SUN MAY 3 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... GRANT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WAS MOVING THROUGH GRANT COUNTY AT 500PM CDT. THIS STORM IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. THE STORM WAS SOUTH[EAST OF ULYSSES AND MOVING NORTH NORTHWEST VERY SLOWLY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER FROM THIS STORM. JR
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 3, 2:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 213 PM CDT SUN MAY 3 1987 .......VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM SOUTH OF LIBERAL....... AT 213 PM CDT THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER NORTHWEST BEAVER COUNTY IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. THIS STORM HAD MOVED VERY SLOWLY NORTH DURING THE LAST HOUR. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY STRONG WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS WELL AS VERY HEAVY RAINS. THE STORM COULD ENTER LIBERAL DURING THE NEXT HOUR. PERSONS IN SOUTHERN SEWARD COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. JOHNSON1913Z
Special weather statement, May 3, 3:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 305 PM CDT SUN MAY 3 1987 .......VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERN SEWARD COUNTY.......... AT 305 PM CDT THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER SOUTHERN SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE STORM CONTINUED TO MOVE ALMOST DUE NORTH ACROSS SEWARD COUNTY AT ABOUT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM HAD PRODUCED STRONG WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINS AND SOME PEA^ SIZED HAIL OVER SOUTHERN SEWARD COUNTY IN THE LAST HOUR. PERSONS IN SEWARD COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE STORM AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. JOHNSON2008Z
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Haskell | 50 min |
| May 3, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Grant | 31 min |
| May 3, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 31 min |
| May 3, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 58 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987
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.