Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1997, 7:22 PM CDT for Gray County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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
- May 16, 1997, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1997, 7:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gray County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:24 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Ensign, KS | |
| May 16, 7:24 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 | Ensign, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 16, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2206 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 170022 RRA SVRDDC KSC069-170055- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 722 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN GRAY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 755 PM CDT * THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER OPEN COUNTRY. * AT 720 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 1 MILE SOUTH OF ENSIGN MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 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. RUTHI/MCAVOY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 50 min |
| May 16, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 61 min |
| May 16, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 63 min |
| May 17, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 30 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.