Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1987, 9:21 PM CDT for Gove County, Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 1987, 9:21 PM CDT (02:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1987, 10:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gove County, KS, Logan 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 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 4405 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1317 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 16.4
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, Jul 7, 6:03 PM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 605 PM CDT TUE JUL 7 1987 AT 6 PM..RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER WEST CENTRAL KANSAS IN THE COUNTIES OF TREGO ANnD ELLIS. THE STORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE IN A EASTERLY DIRECTION INTO CENTRAL KANSAS WHERE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS..SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. DORSEY
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 7:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 710 PM CDT TUE JUL 7 1987 AT 705 PM..RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST AND WESTCENTRAL KANSAS. THE AREA WAS 20 MILES WIDE..EXTENDING FROM SOUTHEAST OF STOCKTON TO COLLYER MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS IN SOUTHEAST GRAHAM COUNTY..5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HILL CITY. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS AND SOME SMALL HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. FREIBURGER
Special weather statement, Jul 7, 8:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 800 PM CDT TUE JUL 7 1987 ..SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MOST OF NORTHWEST KANSAS TIL 1 AM CDT... AT 755 PM..THUNDERSTORMS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED OVER WEST CENTRAL KANSAS HAVE DISSIPATED. A NEW STORM HAS DEVELOPED SINCE 730PM OVER LANE COUNTY OF WESTERN KANSAS. NO MOVEMENT HAS BEEN NOTED AT THIS TIME ALTHOUGH AS OTHER STORMS MOVED NORTHEAST THEN THIS ONE SHOULD ALSO. NUMEROUS INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER EASTERN COLORADO AND MOVING EAST AND SHOULD BE IN WESTERN KANSAS BETWEEN 10 AND 1030 PM CDT THIS EVENING. DORSEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Lane | 64 min |
| Jul 7, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Ness | 65 min |
| Jul 7, 9:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Ness | 33 min |
| Jul 7, 10:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Scott | 26 min |
| Jul 7, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wichita | 63 min |
| Jul 7, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Lane, Ness | 63 min |
| Jul 7, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Phillips | 30 min |
| Jul 7, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Lincoln | 67 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.