Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS

April 1, 1997Kearny County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 1, 1997, 7:33 PM CST for Kearny County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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: Apr 1, 1997, 7:33 PM CST (01:33 UTC)
Expired: Apr 1, 1997, 8:20 PM CST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Kearny County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 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
Apr 1, 7:35 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Lakin, KS
Apr 1, 7:45 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Lakin, 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 127 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 54 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -242 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 907 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 244 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KDDC 020132 RRA
SVRDDC
KSC093-020220-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
733 PM CST TUE APR 1 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  KEARNY COUNTY - IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 820 PM CST
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  LAKIN                      BY 800 PM CST
  DEERFIELD                  BY 810 PM CST

* AT 729 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DODGE CITY
  DOPPLER RADAR 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAKIN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30
  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.

MCAVOY/NICHOLS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 1, 6:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Scott	30 min
Apr 2, 6:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stafford	31 min
Apr 2, 1:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Ford	35 min
Apr 2, 2:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	33 min
Apr 2, 2:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards	32 min
Apr 2, 3:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards	33 min
Apr 2, 4:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards	32 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.