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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Wichita, KS

May 27, 1987Butler County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1987, 1:18 PM CDT for Butler County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 1987, 1:18 PM CDT (18:18 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1987, 2:20 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Butler 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 171 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1987-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 33 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1987-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 297 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
33 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-171 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
297 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
296 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 7:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner56 min
May 26, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Cowley, Sedgwick64 min
May 26, 8:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner29 min
May 26, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler59 min
May 27, 8:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick45 min
May 27, 1:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley55 min

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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.