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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 21, 1987Grant County, Stanton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 1987, 8:56 PM CDT for Grant County, Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 21, 1987, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
Expired
May 21, 1987, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Grant County, KS, Stanton 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 147 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 1987-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 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 1987-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 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
10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-307 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1391 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
317 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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

Special weather statement, May 21, 8:07 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
805 PM CDT THURS MAY 21 1987

THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING IN THE SOUTHWEST KANSAS COUNTIES
OF STEVENS AND SEWARD SINCE 745 PM CDT+.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOPE AND MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND
SOME HAIL ALONG WITH HIGH WINDS.  NO THREATENING WEATHER WAS REPORTED
AS OF 8PM CDT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

DELZEIT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 21, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Grant, Kearny60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.