Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1997, 5:17 PM CDT for Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 28 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 24, 1997, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1997, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stanton County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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 24, 5:38 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Saunders, 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 24, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 1173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -340 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 950 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 364 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 406 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 242217 RRA SVRDDC KSC187-242245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 517 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN STANTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED MANTER BY 540 PM CDT * AT 512 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF SAUNDERS ELEVATOR MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...BE PREPARED FOR WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. PARKIN/KRUSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 58 min |
| Jun 23, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 62 min |
| Jun 23, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 50 min |
| Jun 24, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 62 min |
| Jun 24, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stanton | 35 min |
| Jun 24, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 31 min |
| Jun 24, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 62 min |
| Jun 24, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 50 min |
| Jun 24, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 48 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.