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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Wichita, KS

July 2, 1987Kingman County, Reno County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1987, 3:24 AM CDT for Kingman County, Reno County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 2, 1987, 3:24 AM CDT (08:24 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 1987, 4:20 AM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

Counties Kingman County, KS, Reno 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 157 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1987-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2015 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1987-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 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
2015 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1126 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
195 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.3
Supercell composite
8.3

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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
Jul 2, 3:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper55 min
Jul 2, 4:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.