Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1987, 2:38 PM CDT for Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1987, 2:38 PM CDT (19:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1987, 3:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Seward 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 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 305 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1162 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 291938 SVRDDC KSC175-292040- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 238 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 340 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... SOUTHERN SEWARD RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF LIBERAL KS MOVING EAST AT 10 TO 15MPH. HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL, ONE INCH IN DIAMETER WAS REPORTED BY KS HIGHWAY PATROL JUST WEST OF LIBERAL AT 225 PM CDT. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER FROM THIS STORM. JDG
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 29, 11:12 AM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1110 AM CDT MON JUN 29 1987 .....THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS SPAWN SOME SMALL HAIL..... A LITTLE PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED AT 1100 AM CDT JUST EAST OF GARDEN CITY WITH A THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WAS IN THAT AREA. SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS WERE POPPING UP ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS THIS MORNING IN RESPONSE TO A WEAK AND SLOW MOVING COOL FRONT. BY 1100 AM CDT THE FRONT WAS ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS FROM NEAR GREAT BEND TO JETMORE TO GARDEN CITY AND ON TO LIBERAL. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTH BUT VERY SLOWLY. IT IS LIKELY THAT THIS SYSTEM WILL BE IN OUR AREA THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND INTO TONIGHT. PERIODS OF SHOWERS...THUNDERSHOWERS AND LATER ON SOME HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED TODAY. RAINS ARE LIKELY TO BE VERY HEAVY WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS AND A LITTLE SMALL HAIL IS CERTAINLY POSSIBLE AT ISOLATED LOCATIONS..............JOHNSON1612Z
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 12:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1225 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1987 .....THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS..... AT 1225 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON A WEAK COOL FRONT WAS ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST KANSAS AREA FROM NEAR GREAT BEND TO JETMORE TO JUST SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY AND ON SOUTHWEST THROUGH ELKHART. A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME VERY HEAVY...WAS ALONG THE FRONT AND ABOUT 20 MILES EITHER SIDE OF IT. HEAVIEST RAINS INDICATED ON RADAR WERE WITH THUNDERSTORMS OVER GRANT...HASKELL..SOUTHERN FINNEY AND NORTHWEST GRAY COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WITH THESE STORMS COULD CAUSE MINOR STREET FLOODING IN URBAN AREAS AND MABY PRODUCE STANDING WATER ALONG UNPAVED COUNTY ROADS. THE BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOWED ONLY A VERY SLIGHT SOUTHERLY DRIFT. JOHNSON1724Z
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.