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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 29, 1987Seward County, Kansas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1987-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 305 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 12:00Z on 1987-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 188 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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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

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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.