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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 26, 1987Kiowa County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1987, 10:07 AM CDT for Kiowa County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1987, 10:07 AM CDT (15:07 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1987, 10:40 AM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Kiowa 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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 59 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1987-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2320 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1987-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 164 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2320 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
722 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
206 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 261506
TORDDC
KSC097-261540-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
1007 AM CDT TUE MAY 26 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
<EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1040 AM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF
 
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS... EASTERN KIOWA

VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY ARE PRODUCING
FUNNEL CLOUDS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOS.

 
JRJ

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCGray57 min
May 25, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney59 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.