Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1997, 9:49 PM CDT for Ford County, Hodgeman County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 1997, 9:49 PM CDT (02:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1997, 10:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ford County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:50 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.
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 12, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 13 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
- 2412 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1488 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 130249 RRA SVRDDC KSC057-083-130350- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 949 PM CDT THU JUN 12 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS HODGEMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 1050 PM CDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED DODGE CITY BY 1010 PM CDT SPEARVILLE BY 1015 PM CDT JETMORE BY 1020 PM CDT * AT 946 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF DODGE CITY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...EXPECT WINDS OF 60 MPH OR GREATER...HAIL LARGER THAN ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HEAVY RAIN CAN FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY. YOU SHOULD NEVER TRY TO CROSS WATER COVERED ROADS. STOUT/MCAVOY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stanton | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 49 min |
| Jun 12, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray, Haskell | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 47 min |
| Jun 12, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 46 min |
| Jun 12, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford, Hodgeman | 46 min |
| Jun 12, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 49 min |
| Jun 12, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Edwards, Kiowa | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber, Pratt | 50 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.