Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1987, 7:39 PM CDT for Finney County, Haskell County, Seward County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 10, 1987, 7:39 PM CDT (00:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 1987, 8:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Finney County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Seward 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 275 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
- 899 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2221 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Sep 10, 5:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 540 PM CDT THU SEP 10, 1987 AT 530 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS SOUTHWEST KANSAS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY AND 10 MILES WEST OF SATANTA. THESE STORMS ARE PART OF AN AREA FROM SOUTH OF GOODLAND TO THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL.
Special weather statement, Sep 10, 6:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 620 PM CDT THU SEP 10, 1987 AT 615 CDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM SOUTHEAST OF GOODLAND THROUGH SOUTHWEST KANSAS INTO THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS WERE 20 MILES SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY AND 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF LIBERAL. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL.
Special weather statement, Sep 10, 7:05 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 705 PM CDT THU SEP 10, 1987 AT 700 CDT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOLCOMB. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE VICINITY OF HOLCOMB AND GARDEN CITY SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR HEAVY RAIN ...STRONG WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL WITHIN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa, Pratt | 51 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.