Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1987, 10:29 PM MDT for Hamilton County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 1987, 10:29 PM MDT (04:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1987, 11:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hamilton 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 4405 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1317 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 16.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 080430 SVRDDC KSC075-080530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1029 PM MDT TUE JUL 7 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM MDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... NORTHERN HAMILTON A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER NORTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY. THIS STORM HAD PRODUCED AN UNCONFIRMED FUNNEL CLOUD AND IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY AND PREPARED FOR STRONG DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS. JOHNSON
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 7, 7:40 PM MDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
840 PM CDT TUE JUL 7 1987
...THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING INTO SOUTHWEST KANSAS...
AT 845 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE OK>LAHOMA PANHANDLE WERE
BUILDING INTO STEVENS AND SEWARD COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS.
THE STRONGEST STORM IS 10 MILES SOUTH OF HUGOTON MOVING EAST AT 20
MILES AN HOUR.
CLYDESpecial weather statement, Jul 7, 8:02 PM MDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
900 PM CDT TUE JUL 7 1987
...STRONG THUNDERSTOMS BUILDING IN STANTON COUNTY...
AT 900 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVYELOPED IN STANTON COUNTY.
THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER MANTER AND JUST WEST OF JOHNSON. THE
STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
STRONG GUSTY WINDS HEAVY RAINS AND SOME SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
CLYDESpecial weather statement, Jul 7, 8:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
900 PM CDT TUE JUL 7 1987
...STRONG THUNDERSTOMS BUILDING OVER GARDEN CITY...
AT 935 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER GARDEN CITY IN
SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THIS STORM HAS SHOWN SOME MOVEMENT TO THE NORTH.
STRONG DOWNBURST WINDS CAUSING BLOWING DUST HAS REDUCED THE VISIBILITY
AT MEADE TO ZERO..
CLYDESpecial weather statement, Jul 7, 9:16 PM MDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
900 PM CDT TUE JUL 7 1987
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHWESR KANSAS...
AT 1015 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS.
THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE NORTH
THROUGH MEADE AND MINNEOLA KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS BETWEEN MEADE
AND FOWLER.
OTHER STORMS WERE ALONG THE COLORADO KANSAS BORDER WITHH THE STORMS IN
KANSAS EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF SYRACUSE TO JOHNSON.
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HIUR.
CLYDESpecial weather statement, Jul 7, 9:18 PM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1015 PM CDT TUE JUL 7 1987
CORRECTION TO TIME
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHWESR KANSAS...
AT 1015 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS.
THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE NORTH
THROUGH MEADE AND MINNEOLA KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS BETWEEN MEADE
AND FOWLER.
OTHER STORMS WERE ALONG THE COLORADO KANSAS BORDER WITHH THE STORMS IN
KANSAS EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF SYRACUSE TO JOHNSON.
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HIUR.
CLYDESpecial weather statement, Jul 7, 10:11 PM MDT, 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1110 PM CDT TUE JUL 7 1987 .....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR KEARNY COUNTY TIL 1100 PM MDT.... AT 1110 PM CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREMELY UNSTABLE AIR PUMMELED WESTERN KANSAS WITH THE HEAVIEST STORMS OVER WICHITA...SCOTT...LANE AND NESS COUNTIES. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED CONFIRMED TORNADOES DURING THE LAST HOUR. ALTHOUGH THE STORMS HAVE AN EASTERLY DRIFT THEY APPEAR TO BE BUILDING TO THE SOUTH AND HAVE ENTERD KEARNY AND HODGEMAN COUNTIES AND COULD ENTER FINNEY COUNTY IN THE NEXT HOUR. THE STORMS HAVE A VERY HIGH PROBABILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER AND PERSONS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS ARE ADVISED TO REMAIN ALERT TO THE CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER AND KEEP TUNED TO RADIO...T.V. OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST ON THE STORMS. JOHNSON0410Z
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 10:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 57 min |
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.