Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1997, 10:33 PM CDT for Pratt County, Stafford County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports 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 25, 1997, 10:33 PM CDT (03:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1997, 11:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pratt County, KS, Stafford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:38 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 25, 10:55 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Pratt, KS | |
| Jun 25, 11:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Pratt, 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 nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 1043 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
061 WUUS1 KDDC 260332 RRA SVRDDC KSC151-185-260435- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 1033 PM CDT WED JUN 25 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR PRATT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS STAFFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1135 PM CDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED PRATT THROUGH 1130 PM CDT IUKA THROUGH 1130 PM CDT RURAL RESIDENTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN STAFFORD COUNTY * AT 1028 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A NEARLY STATIONARY LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM 3 MILES SOUTH OF PRATT TO 5 MILES WEST OF ST JOHN. THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL IN EXCESS OF 1 INCH AND WIND SPEEDS GREATER THAN 55 MPH. TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR PROPERTY. MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. PARKIN/BURKE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 62 min |
| Jun 25, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Gray | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 47 min |
| Jun 25, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 49 min |
| Jun 26, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 34 min |
| Jun 26, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 63 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.