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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Goodland, KS

July 8, 1987Phillips County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 1987, 12:00 AM CDT for Phillips County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report 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 8, 1987, 12:00 AM CDT (05:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 1987, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Phillips 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 8, 12:03 AM CDT	Tornado F0	Phillips, 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1446 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1464 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 080503
TORGLD
KSC147-080530-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1200 AM CDT WED JUL 8 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF
 
NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... PHILLIPS
 
AT 12 MID-NIGHT CDT A TORNADO WAS ON THE GROUND NORTH OF STOCKTON IN
NORTHERN ROOKS COUNTY ON THE ROOKS/PHILLIPS COUNTY LINE. THE TORNADO
WAS MOVING NORTH A&T 20 MPH INTO PHILIPS COUNTY.
 
THIS TORNADO WAS ON THE GROUND AND CAUSING DAMAGE.  ALL PEOPLE NEAR
THIS DANGEROUS STORM SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
TED

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 5 hours 57 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, 4 hours 48 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, 3 hours 59 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, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan	59 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

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.