Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1987, 7:41 PM CDT for Gray County, Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 1, 1987, 7:41 PM CDT (00:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 1987, 8:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gray County, KS, Meade 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 8:00 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Gray, 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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 2015 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1126 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 8.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 020041 SVRDDC KSC069-119-020140- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 741 PM CDT WED JUL 1 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 840 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... SOUTHERN GRAY... NORTHERN MEADE A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER MONTEZUMA KANSAS IN SOUTHERN GRAY COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS ALL INDICATIONS OF BEING SEVERE. THE STORM WAS 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY AND APPEARED TO BE STATIONARY BUT WILL MOSTLY LIKE MOVE EAST OR SOUTHEAST. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...DAMAGING WINDS oAND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER FROM THIS STORM. 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, Jul 1, 5:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 520 PM CDT WED JUL 1 1987 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR EXTREME WESTERN KANSAS TILL 9PM......... AT 520 PM CDT A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ABOUT 75 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY. THIS THUNDERSTORM CENTER WAS OVER OPTIMA OKLAHOMA AND SPREAD OVER THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF STEVENS COUNTY 8 MILES SOUTH OF HOUGOTON KANSAS. THIS THUNDERSTORMS WAS GAINING STRENGTH AS IT BUILDS AND WAS SLOWLY MOVING EAST. STEVENS COUNTY IS INCLUDED IN A TORNADO WATCH AREA TILL 9 PM THIS EVENING. PERSONS IN SOUTHERN STEVENS COUNTY AND SOUTHERN SEWARD COUNTY SHOULD KEEP ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER. TORNADOS CAN FORM WITH LITTLE IF ANY WARNING. NOLLER
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 6:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 635 PM CDT WED JUL 1 1987 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR EXTREME WESTERN KANSAS TILL 10 PM....... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR) SOUTHERN STEVENS COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 640 PM CDT AND NOT BE EXTENDED. THE STORM WHICH REQUIRED THE WARNING FOR STEVENS COUNTY WAS IN SOUTHEASTERN SEWARD COUNTY CONTINUING ITS EASTERLY MOVEMENT ALONG THE KANSAS OKLAHOMA BORDER. NOLLER
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 6:59 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 655 PM CDT WED JUL 1 1987 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR EXTREME WESTERN KANSAS TILL 10 PM....... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN SEWARD WILL BE CANCELLED AT 7 PM CDT. THE THUNDERSTORM WHICH REQUIRED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED INTO SOUTHERN MEADE COUNTY AND WAS STILL STRADELING THE STATE LINE. THO THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKEND PERSONS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT LFOR RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER UNTILL THE TORNADO WATCH EXPIRES AT 10 PM CDT. NOLLER
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 7:36 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 730 PM CDT WED JUL 1 1987 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR EXTREME WESTERN KANSAS TILL 10 PM....... A NEW AND RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED IN SOUTH/ CENTRAL GRAY COUNTY NEAR MONTEZUMA. THIS THUNDERSTORM..25 MILES TO THE SOUTHWEST OF DODGE CITY WILL LIKELY GROW MORE INTENSE AND COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE KANSAS OKLAHOMA BORDER PRODUCED MARBLE TO GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WILL MOST LIKELY MOVE EAST TO SOUTHEAST AND COULD MOVE INTO THE FOUR CORNER AREA OF FORD..CLARK..MEADE AND GRAY COUNTIES. PERSONS IN THE AFOREMENTIONED COUNTIES SHOULD STAY ABREAST OF nRAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER. NOLLER
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.