Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 1997, 2:48 PM CST for Edwards County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min. 3 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 2, 1997, 2:48 PM CST (20:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 1997, 3:20 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Edwards County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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 2, 3:19 PM CST | Hail 1 | Kinsley, KS | |
| Apr 2, 3:23 PM CST | Hail 1 | Kinsley, KS | |
| Apr 2, 3:30 PM CST | Hail 1 | Kinsley, 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 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 255 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -270 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 648 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 300 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 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 022047 RRA SVRDDC KSC047-022120- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 248 PM CST WED APR 2 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN EDWARDS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 320 PM CST * THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER OPEN COUNTRY. * AT 247 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR 8 MILES SOUTH OF KINSLEY OR 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OFFERLE MOVING NORTHEAST 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.V HUTTON/REITER
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 1, 7:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kearny | 47 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, 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.