Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1987, 5:09 PM CDT for Barber County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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
- Jun 2, 1987, 5:09 PM CDT (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1987, 5:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barber 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 5:34 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Barber, 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 2104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1122 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 022210 SVRDDC KSC007-022240- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 509 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 540 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... BARBER THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX OVER EASTERN AND SOUTHERN BARBER COUNTY REMAINS EXTREMELY INTENSE AND WILL BE OVER THOSE PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY FOR ANOTHER HALF AN HOUR. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN EXTENDED IN TIME AND IN AREA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER FROM THIS STORM. JRJ
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, Jun 2, 1:18 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 120 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 1987 ......HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS......... AT 120 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS RUMBLED ACROSS PORTIONS OF EDWARDS...PAWNEE AND STAFFORD COUNTIES IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. THE STORMS WERE ALONG A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT WHICH EXTENDED FROM NEAR TOPEKA SOUTHWEST TO JUST SOUTH OF SALINA...NORTH OF HUTCHINSON AND ON SOUTHWEST TO JUST SOUTH OF MEADE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BREIF VERY HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND SOME SMALL HAIL AS WELL AS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. JOHNSON1818Z
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:08 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 210 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 1987 ......SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FROM DODGE CITY EAST UNTIL 7 PM CDT... AT 210 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS. ALTHOUGH THERE WERE NO THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS...OUR ATMOSPHERE REMAINS EXTREMELY UNSTABLE. THIS MEANS THAT VERY VIOLENT THUNDERSTORMS COULD BEGIN FORMING IN THE WATCH AREA ^EAST OF DODGE CITY AT ANY MOMENT. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN DODGE CITY CONTINUES TO CLOSELY MONITOR THIS SITUATION. FURTHER BULLETINS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. JOHNSON1908Z
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 255 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 1987 .......SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR STAFFORD...PRATT AND BARBER COUNTIES AND AREAS TO THE EAST UNTIL 7 PM CDT......... AT 255 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURING ACROSS ANY PORTION OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS. OUR ATMOSPHERE REMAINS EXTREMELY UNSTABLE BUT IT NOW APPEARS THAT ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM FORMATION OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY. THE WATCH AREA HAD BEEN DROPPED FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN DODGE CITY CONTINUES TO CLOSELY MONITOR THIS SITUATION. FURTHER BULLETINS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. JOHNSON1956Z
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 4:22 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 420 PM CDT TUE JUN 2 1987 .......SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR STAFFORD...PRATT AND BARBER COUNTIES AND AREAS TO THE EAST UNTIL 7 PM CDT......... AT 420 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED RAPIDLY ALONG THE COOL FRONT OVER PORTIONS OF KINGMAN...PRATT AND BARBER COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THESE STORMS WERE RAPIDLY GAINING INTENSITY AND MOVING VERY SLOWLY EAST AND SOUTHEAST. THE STORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTHWEST OF CUNNINGHAM IN WWESTERN KINGMAN COUNTY TO JUST WEST OF MEDICINE LODGE IN BARBER COUNTY. THEY ARE CAPAPBLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS WELL AS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. IF YOU ARE NEAR THESE STORMS BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. JOHNSON2122Z
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Finney | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 29 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.