Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1987, 5:20 PM CDT for Allen County, Greenwood County, Woodson County, Kansas. It was in force for 55 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 27, 1987, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1987, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Allen County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Woodson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 5:38 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Greenwood, KS | |
| Jun 27, 6:00 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Allen, 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1643 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KICT 272220 SVRICT KSC001-073-207-272320- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 520 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 620 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS... SOUTHERN ALLEN... SOUTHEASTERN GREENWOOD... SOUTHERN WOODSON AT 519 PM CDT A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR IOLA THROUGH YATES CENTER TO JUST NORTH OF EUREKA...AT 518 PM CDT HAIL ONE AND ONE-HALF INCHES TO BASEBALL SIZE WAS REPORTED JUST NORTH OF EUREKA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER FROM THIS STORM. SWAIN
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, Jun 27, 2:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 235 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 1987 ...THUNDERSTORMS ON THE INCREASE OVER EAST CENTRAL KANSAS... AT 230 PM CDT...AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED BETWEEN COUNCIL GROVE AND EMPORIA...IT WAS ABOUT 15 MILES IN DIAMETER AND COULD BRING HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WIND AND SOME HAIL. THIS STORM WAS PART OF A 30 MILE WIDE BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT WAS NORTHEAST OF AT LINE FROM 75 MILES NORTHEAST OF WICHITA... NEAR HAMILTON IN GREENWOOD COUNTY TO JUST EAST OF COTTONWOOD FALLS TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF HERINGTON...NEAR WHITE CITY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SWAIN
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 3:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 340 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT... ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE STRONG OVER EAST CENTRAL KANSAS AND THE NORTHERN SECTION OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS... AT 330 PM CDT...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST SOUTHWEST OF MATFIELD GREEN ALONG THE KANSAS TURNPIKE ABOUT 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF WICHITA AND ABOUT 25 MILES EAST OF EMPORIA...THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SOME HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BOUNDED BY A LINE FROM 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TOPEKA TO ABOUT HALF WAY BETWEEN IOLA AND YATES CENTER TO 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF WICHITA TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF TOPEKA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SWAIN
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 4:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 410 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN KANSAS AND ADJACENT PORTIONS OF MISSOURI... ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS IN EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS... AT 405 PM CDT...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NORTHWEST GREENWOOD COUNTY...IN A 10 MILE WIDE BAND FROM ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF EUREKA TO JUST SOUTH OF MATFIELD GREEN...JUST NORTHWEST OF YATES CENTER AND 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF BURLINGTON. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE BEEN RECEIVED SINCE 330 PM CDT... HOWEVER...STRONG...GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL ARE LIKELY AS THESE STORMS PASS THROUGH. SWAIN
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 4:41 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS 440 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN KANSAS AND ADJACENT PORTIONS OF MISSOURI... ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS IN EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS... AT 430 PM CDT...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A 15 MILE WIDE BAND THAT EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF IOLA TO ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF EUREKA. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE BEEN RECEIVED SINCE 400 PM CDT... HOWEVER...STRONG...GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL ARE LIKELY AS THE STORMS PASS THROUGH. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A 40 MILE WIDE BAND NORTH OF A LINE FROM THE KANSAS/MISSOURI BORDER NORTH OF FT SCOTT KANSAS TO JUST SOUTH OF YATES CENTER TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF NEWTON. MOVEMENT OF ALL OF THE STORMS WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SWAIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cherokee | 26 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987
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.