Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1997, 2:45 AM CDT for Pawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 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
- Aug 15, 1997, 2:45 AM CDT (07:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1997, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pawnee County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 3:00 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Sanford, 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 480 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2256 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
288 WUUS1 KDDC 150746 RRA SVRDDC KSC145-150815- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 245 AM CDT FRI AUG 15 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL PAWNEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 315 AM CDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED FRIZELL BY 300 AM CDT LARNED BY 310 AM CDT * AT 242 AM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ONE MILE NORTHWEST OF SANFORD MOVING EAST AT 17 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. KRUSE/REITER
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Dodge City, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 15, 2:40 AM CDT, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 2:40 AM CDT, 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 240 AM CDT FRE AUG 15 1997 NICE LIGHTNING SHOW NORTHEAST OF DDC THIS MORNING FROM TSRA ASSOCIATED WITH PASSING S/W. SHOULD MOVE OUT OF CWA BY FCST ISSUANCE TIME. MAIN CHALLENGE SHOULD BE TEMPS TODAY AND SATURDAY. NGM/ETA AGGRE ON LOW LEVEL MOISTURE EAST OF AREA THROUGH 48 HOURS. 700 TEMPS UP TO ABOUT 14C TONIGHT. NGM/AVN DO NOT INDICATE MUCH IN THE WAY OF A S/W FOR TONIGHT BUT ETA CURIOUSLY BRINGS WAVE OUT OF SOUTHWEST U.S.(NOT GIVING IT MUCH WEIGHT). WILL LIKELY DROP OR KEEP VERLY LOW POPS IN FAR EASTERN COUNTIES FOR TONIGHT. ANYWAY...850 GRADIENT SHOULD TIGHTEN TODAY AND SFC WINDS SHOULD TURN SW THIS MORNING. MODELS BRING SFC TROF EAST TODAY THEN RE-FORM BACK INTO EASTERN COLORADO AS UPPER FLOW BECOMES MORE WESTERLY. EXPECT TO SEE BREEZY CONDINTIONS AND LOTS OF DOWNSLOPE WARMING. HIGHS LIKELY TO GO ABOVE FWC VALUES AND CLOSER TO FAN. FOR SATURDAY...PROGED 850 TEMPS SIMILAR TO TODAYS BUT GRADIENT NOT QUITE AS STRONG SO TEMPS MAY BE A BIT COOLER. .DDC...NONE DDC 097/067 095/066 087 0-0 GCK 096/063 096/063 086 000 HYS 095/062 094/062 085 000 EHA 095/063 094/063 085 000 LBL 097/068 096/067 085 010 P28 100/070 100/071 090 010 REITER
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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.