Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1997, 6:31 PM CDT for Finney County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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 24, 1997, 6:31 PM CDT (23:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1997, 7:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Finney County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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 24, 6:35 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Garden City, KS | |
| May 24, 7:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Garden City, 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 24, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 476 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 755 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
240 WUUS1 KDDC 242333 RRA SVRDDC KSC055-250005- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 631 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN FINNEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 705 PM CDT * THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER OPEN COUNTRY. * AT 628 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES WEST OF KALVESTA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH PER HOUR. 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. PARKIN/KRUSE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 4:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Stanton | 32 min |
| May 24, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 47 min |
| May 24, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 32 min |
| May 24, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 32 min |
| May 24, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 32 min |
| May 24, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Stevens | 42 min |
| May 24, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stevens | 34 min |
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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.