Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1997, 7:59 PM CDT for Ness County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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
- Jun 11, 1997, 7:59 PM CDT (00:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1997, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ness County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 8:05 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Ness City, 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 3005 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 991 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 8.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 120059 RRA SVRDDC KSC135-120145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 759 PM CDT WED JUN 11 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NESS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER OPEN COUNTRY. * AT 756 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 1 MILE SOUTHEAST OF NESS CITY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER. TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR PROPERTY. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. WINDS GREATER THAN 55 MILES AN HOUR ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. STOUT/MCAVOY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 62 min |
| Jun 12, 1:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 47 min |
| Jun 12, 1:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 44 min |
| Jun 12, 2:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.