Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 19, 1997Finney County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1997, 6:56 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 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
Apr 19, 1997, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)
Expired
Apr 19, 1997, 7:25 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Finney County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 80 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 12:00Z on 1997-04-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1997-04-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1796 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 192356 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC055-200025-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
656 PM CDT SAT APR 19 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 725 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  HOLCOMB                    BY 710 PM CDT
  GARDEN CITY                BY 720 PM CDT


* AT 652 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DODGE CITY
  DOPPLER RADAR 10 MILES NORTH-NORTHWEST OF HOLCOMB MOVING
  SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

*

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...BE PREPARED FOR WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 70 MPH AND HAIL UP TO ONE AND A HALF INCH IN DIAMETER.  IF
YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO A SFTURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

STEINMETZ/SEARCY

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.