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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Dodge City, KS

July 1, 1987Gray County, Meade County, Kansas

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 1, 8:00 PM CDTHail 1Gray, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1987-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2015 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 1987-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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.