Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 22, 1987, 6:25 PM CST for Gray County, Haskell County, Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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
- Mar 22, 1987, 6:25 PM CST (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 1987, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 6:40 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Gray, KS | |
| Mar 22, 7:10 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Haskell, 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 603 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1151 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 230027 COR SVRDDC KSC081-069-083-230100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ..CORRECTION TO COUNTY AREA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 625 PM CST SUN MAR 22 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... EASTERN HASKELL... WEST CENTRAL GRAY... EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN HODGEMAN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER EASTERN HASKELL COUNTY MOVING INTO WEST CENTRAL GREY COUNTY AT 620 PM CST. THESE STORMS DROPPED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT SUBLETTE. ` ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST FORD COUNTY MOVING TOWARDS EXTREME SOUTHEAST HODGEMAN COUNTY. TAKE COVER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. LLN
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, Mar 22, 3:00 PM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 300PM CST SUN MAR 22 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 8PM CST... ...LIVESTOCK ADVISORY TONIGHT... ...WINTER STORM WATCH MONDAY... NO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS OCCURING IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS AS OF 3PM CST. HOWEVER A FEW DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE MID PART OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE BETWEEN GUYMON AND BEAVER OKLAHOMA. RYBA
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 3:30 PM CST, 2 hours 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 330PM CST SUN MAR 22 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 8PM CST... ...LIVESTOCK ADVISORY TONIGHT... ...WINTER STORM WATCH MONDAY... THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS OUT OF THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WAS OCCURING AT LIBERAL WITH SOME SMALL HAIL MIXED IN. THIS THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE SHORTLIVED AND MOVE ON NORTH INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS. RYBA
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 4:49 PM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes before
KDDC 222249 KDDC 222239 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 448 PM CST SUN MAR 22 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 8PM CST... ...LIVESTOCK ADVISORY TONIGHT... ...WINTER STORM WATCH MONDAY... AT 445 PM CST STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH MEADE COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE PATH OF THESE STORMS WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WERE APPROACHING SOUTHWEST FORD COUNTY. PERSONS IN AND AROUND THE TOWNS OF MINNEOLA..ENSIGN AND MONTEZUMA CAN EXPECT VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS AND MOST LIKELY PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL. WHEN THESE STORMS PASSED THROUGH PLAINS KANSAS HEAVY RAIN REDUCED VISIBILITY TO LESS THEN 100 FEET AND LEFT HAIL 2 TTO 3 INCHES DEEP IN SOME PLACES. PERSONS IN AND AROUND THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF FORD COUNTY SHOULD PREPARE NOW FOR THE ARRIVAL OF THESE STORMS BY 545 PM CST. NOLLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 7:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Haskell | 26 min |
| Mar 22, 7:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 28 min |
| Mar 22, 8:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 57 min |
| Mar 22, 8:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa | 48 min |
| Mar 22, 8:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 48 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.