Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1987, 3:57 PM CDT for Gray County, Meade County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 min. 2 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 14, 1987, 3:57 PM CDT (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1987, 4:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 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 14, 4:06 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Gray, KS | |
| Jul 14, 4:25 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Meade, 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 12:00Z, 9.0 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
- 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 142056 SVRDDC KSC119-069-142140- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 357 PM CDT TUE JUL 14 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 440 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS... NORTHERN MEADE... SOUTHERN GRAY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVE WESTERN FOD COUNTY WAS BUILDING WEST AND CONTINUED TO DRIFT SLOWLY SOUTH. THIS ENDANGERS SOUTHERN GRAY COUNTY AND WILL BRING NORTHERN MEADE COUNTY INTO CONTENTION DURING THE NEXT 45 MINUTES. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER FRO^M 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 27 minutes 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 51 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, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 60 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.