Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1987, 3:30 PM CDT for Stevens County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 1987, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1987, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stevens 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2133 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 142030 SVRDDC KSC189-142130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 330 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... STEVENS THE SEVERE THUNDERTORM OVER SOUTHERN GRANT COUNTY HAD MOVED SOUTH INTO NORTHERN STEVENS COUNTY AND HAD PRODUCED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AS IT MOVED. THE WARNING FOR SOUTHERN GRANT COUNTY IS CANCELLED AND THE WARNING FOR STEVENS COUNTY HAS BEEN EXPANDED TO INCLUD THE ENTIRE COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS5 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 14, 1:30 PM CDT, 2 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1250 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 1987 AN AREA OF NEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS HAS FORMED IN THE PAST HOUR JUST SOUTH OF SYRACUSE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. ANOTHER AREA OF NEWLY DEVELOPED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM SOUTH OF JOHNSON TO ELKHART KANSAS ON INTO THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. OTHER AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS AND RAIN SHOWERS WAS DRIFTING SOUTHEAST INTO WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. THIS AREA WAS FROM GOVE TO KINSLEY TO ST JOHN AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. CLYDE
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 2:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 1987 A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM JUST SOUTH OF JOHNSON TO ELKHART KANSAS ON INTO THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 5 MILES EAST OF LAKIN AND FROM 10 MILES NORTH TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF JOHNSON. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. A NEWLY DEVELOPED THUNDERSTORM WAS 20 MILES NORTH OF DODGE CITY. OTHER AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS AND RAIN SHOWERS WAS DRIFTING SOUTHEAST INTO WEST CENTRAL KANSAS. THIS AREA WAS FROM GOVE TO KINSLEY TO ST JOHN AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. CLYDE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stevens | 65 min |
| Jul 14, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 65 min |
| Jul 14, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Meade | 43 min |
| Jul 14, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.