Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1987, 1:09 AM CDT for Edwards County, Kiowa County, Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 min. 3 reports 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 12, 1987, 1:09 AM CDT (06:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1987, 2:10 AM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Edwards County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Pawnee 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 12, 1:41 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Kiowa, KS | |
| Jul 12, 1:43 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Edwards, KS | |
| Jul 12, 1:56 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Pawnee, 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 2255 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2372 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 120610 SVRDDC KSC145-047-097-120710- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 109 AM CDT SUN JUL 12 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 210 AM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... PAWNEE... EDWARDS... KIOWA SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS RAGED ACROSS FORD AND HODGEMAN COUNTY AND THE GUST FRONT FROM THESE STORMS WILL ENTER PAWNEE EDWARDS AND KIOWA COUNTIES IN THE NEXT 10 MINUTES. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINS. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...D AMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER FROM THIS STORM. 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 11, 9:22 PM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 920 PM CDT SAT JUL 11 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR HAMILTON...KEARNEY... FINNEY...HODGEMAN...AND PAWNEE COUNTIES ULTIL 2AM CDT... THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURING OVER THE NORTHERN PORTION OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS. NORTH OF LAKIN...NORTHWEST OF KALVESTA AND OVER JETMORE. MOST OTHER STORMS ARE IN NORTHWEST KANSAS. HEAVY RAINS...STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAILH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST ABOUT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. RYBA
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 10:24 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1020 PM CDT SAT JUL 11 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR HAMILTON...KEARNEY... FINNEY...HODGEMAN...AND PAWNEE COUNTIES ULTIL 2AM CDT... THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. MOST OF THEM BEING CONFINED TO NORTHERN FINNEY COUNTY NORTH OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN HAMILTON AND KEARNY COUNTIES TO THE WEST. HEAVY RAINS...STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST ABOUT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. RYBA
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 11:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1115 PM CDT SAT JUL 11 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR HAMILTON...KEARNEY... FINNEY...HODGEMAN...AND PAWNEE COUNTIES ULTIL 2AM CDT... THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. MOST OF THEM BEING CONFINED TO FINNEY COUNTY NORTH OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER. OTHER LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS WERE SOUTH OF MEADE IN MEADE COUNTY AND LIGHT RAIN WAS REPORTED AT FORD IN SOUTHEAST FOR COUNTY. HEAVY RAINS...STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH A FEW OF THESE STORMS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST ABOUT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. RYBA
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 11:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1135 PM CDT SAT JUL 11 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR HAMILTON...KEARNEY... FINNEY...HODGEMAN...AND PAWNEE COUNTIES ULTIL 2AM CDT... THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING INTO THE CITY OF GARDEN CITY. HEAVY RAINS STRONG WINDS AND VIVID LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS THUNDER/ STORM. THE AIRPORT AT GARDEN CITY HAS REPORTED WINDS UP TO 50 TO 55 MPH CAUSING SOME BLOWING DIRT. MOVEMENT WAS EAST ABOUT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. RYBA
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 12:15 AM CDT, 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1214 AM CDT SUN JUL 12 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR HAMILTON...KEARNEY... FINNEY...HODGEMAN...AND PAWNEE COUNTIES UNTIL 2AM CDT... AT 1214 AM CDT THE COMPLEX OF VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE COLD FRONT IN WESTERN KANSAS WAS OVER THE GARDEN CITY AREA. DOWNDRAFT WINDS FROM THESE STORMS HAD FORMED A VERY INTENSE GUST FRONT WHICH WAS BOW SHAPED AND EXTENDED FROM NEAR CIMARRON KANSAS SOUTHWEST THROUGH MONTEZUMA...SATANTA AND ON TO JUST NORTH OF HUGOTON. THE GUST FRONT WAS CAUSING EXTREMELY HIGH WINDS THROUGH THAT AREA AND COULD WELL BE THE MOST DANGEROUS ASPECT OF THIS APPROACHING STORM SYSTEM. WIND SPEEDS ESTIMATED AT 60 TO 70 MPH WERE REPORTED IN THE SUBLETTE AREA IN THE LAST FEW MINUTES. JOHNSON0514Z
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 12:41 AM CDT, 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1240 AM CDT SUN JUL 12 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR HAMILTON...KEARNEY... FINNEY...HODGEMAN...AND PAWNEE COUNTIES UNTIL 2AM CDT... AT 1240 AM CDT VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS COVERED MUCH OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS WEST OF A LINE FROM NESS CITY TO COLDWATER. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE OVER NORTHEAST GRAY COUNTY AND NORTHWEST FORD COUNTY. A GUST FRONT WHICH PACKED WINDS UP TO 60 TO 70 MPH HAD PASSED THROUGH THE DODGE CITY AREA MOVING EAST AND SOUTHEAST. THIS FRONT EXTENDED SOUTHWEST FROM THERE INTO THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST BUT THE AREA OF STORMS ITSELF AND THE GUSTFRONT WERE MOVING EAST TO SOUTHEAST. SOME SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINS HAVE BEEN OCCURING WITH THESE STORMS. WITH THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA SO NEAR...PERSONS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE STRONG CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPING. JOHNSON0540Z
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 48 min |
| Jul 12, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Comanche | 65 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987
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.