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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Dodge City, KS

March 22, 1987Gray County, Haskell County, Hodgeman County, Kansas

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 22, 6:40 PM CSTHail 1.75Gray, KS
Mar 22, 7:10 PM CSTHail 1.75Haskell, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1987-03-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 603 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 1987-03-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 144 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 22, 7:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray, Haskell26 min
Mar 22, 7:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray28 min
Mar 22, 8:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark57 min
Mar 22, 8:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Comanche, Ford, Kiowa48 min
Mar 22, 8:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman48 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.