Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1987, 12:50 AM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 1987, 12:50 AM CDT (05:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1987, 1:50 AM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ford 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 9 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
- 1086 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1809 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 210550 SVRDDC KSC057-210650- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1250 AM CDT SUN JUN 21 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 150 AM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... FORD THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER FROM THIS STOdRM. 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, Jun 20, 9:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 941 PM CDT SAT JUN 20 1987 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME WEST KANSAS UNTIL 1 AM CDT. AT 941 PM CDT A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SYRACUSE TO 10 MILES WEST OF ULYSSES TO 10 MILES WEST OF HUGOTON. MOVING EAST 20 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED VERY HEAVY RAINS SMALL HAIL AND VERY STRONG WINDS. SEVERE LIGHThING ALSO WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. GREGG
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 10:50 PM CDT, 2 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1047 PM CDT SAT JUN 20 1987 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME WEST KANSAS UNTIL 1 AM CDT. STRONG THUNDERSTORM AT LAKIN WITH THE REST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS DECREASING IN INTENSITY IN SW KANSAS. AT 10 47 PM CDT A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAKIN WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS STRONG WINDS AND SOME HAIL WITH THIS STORM. MOVING EAST NORTHEAST 20 MPH. ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DECREASING IN INTENSITY FROM SATANTA TO LIBERAL. MODERATE RAINS AND WINDS OF 35 TO 40MPH WITH THESE STORMS. MOVING EAST 20 MPH. GREGG
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 11:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1142 PM CDT SAT JUN 20 1987 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS FROM GARDEN CITY EAST TO PRATT UNTIL 5AM. THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS CONTINUE TO DECREASE IN INTENSITY. AT 1142 PM CDT THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM GARDEN CITY TO MEADE TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF MEADE. LIGHT RAIN AND MODERATE REAINS WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. MOVEMENT EAS<T 20 MPH. GREGG
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 11:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1142 PM CDT SAT JUN 20 1987 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS FROM GARDEN CITY EAST TO PRATT UNTIL 5AM. THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS CONTINUE TO DECREASE IN INTENSITY. AT 1142 PM CDT THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM GARDEN CITY TO MEADE TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF MEADE. LIGHT RAIN AND MODERATE WINDS WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. MOVEMENT >EAST 20 MPH. GREGG
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 11:59 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1155 PM CDT SAT JUN 20 1987 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS FROM GARDEN CITY EAST TO PRATT UNTIL 5AM. INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST KANSAS WERE READY TO BLAST THEIR WAY INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS. AT 1155 PM THE LEADING EDGE OF THE INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER NORTH FINNEY COUNTY OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF GARDEN CITY. VERY STRONG WINDS AND IHEAVY RAINS AND SOME HAIL LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. MOVING SOUTHEAST 25 MPH. THIS STORM SHOULD PASS CLOSE TO GARDEN CITY BY 1245 AM SUNDAY. GREGG
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 12:28 AM CDT, 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1230 AM CDT SUN JUNE 21 1987 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST KANSAS TILL 5AM AT 1230 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED MODERATE TO INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS 20 MILES EAST OF DODGE CITY KANSAS IN FORD COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM THE NEBRASKA BORDER TO THE TEXAS PANHANDLE AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. AT 1230 AM CDT THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE FINNEY COUNTY PANHANDLE..25 MILES NORTHWEST OF DODGE CITY..MOVING TOWARDS HODGEMAN COUNTY. BY 1 AM CDT THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE WELL ENTRENCHED IN THE COUNTIES OF HODGEMAN..FORD..AND CLARK AS THEY CONTINUE TO MARCH EAST. PPYERSONS CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN..SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WITH THIS STORMS THIS MORNING.
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.