Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1987, 10:39 PM CDT for Kiowa County, Pratt County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 10, 1987, 10:39 PM CDT (03:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 1987, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kiowa County, KS, Pratt 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
Ok Cty/Will Rgrs, OK (KOKC), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 276 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
- 540 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -63 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 110340 SVRDDC KSC097-151-110440- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1039 PM CDT THU SEP 10 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1140 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... NORTHWESTERN KIOWA... EASTERN PRATT AT 1030 CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OCCURRING 10 MILES EAST OF GREENSBURG. THIS THUNDERSTO*RM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. 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. CJ
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, 4 hours 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, 4 hours 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, 3 hours 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.
Special weather statement, Sep 10, 8:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 800 PM CDT THU SEP 10, 1987 AT 800 CDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 5 MILES SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY TO 8 MILES EAST OF SUBLETTE TO 5 MILES EAST OF LIBERAL MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DECREASED IN INTENSITY DURING THE PAST HOUR. HOWEVER LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY. ELSEWHERE A VERY STRONG STORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF DODGE CITY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. EARLIER AT 730 PM...70 MILE AN HOUR WINDS OCCUED AT LIBERAL AND GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL OCCURRED AT SUBLETTE.
Special weather statement, Sep 10, 9:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 930 PM CDT THU SEP 10, 1987 AT 930 CDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS 60 MILES WIDE EXTENDED FROM RUSSELL TO DODGE CITY TO ASHLANDd ON INTO THE OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS PANHANDLES. THE STORMS HAVE DIMINISHED IN INTENSITY DURING THE PAST HOUR. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND STRONG WINDS CAN STILL BE EXPERIENCED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Haskell, Seward | 61 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.