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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Wichita, KS

June 22, 1987Elk County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1987, 6:15 PM CDT for Elk County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1987, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1987, 6:50 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Elk 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 180 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 1987-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 939 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 1987-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
939 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1082 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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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
Jun 22, 2:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMarion59 min
Jun 22, 3:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase, Marion57 min
Jun 22, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey35 min
Jun 22, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler59 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.