Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1997, 3:35 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. 5 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 29, 1997, 3:35 PM CDT (20:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1997, 4:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ford County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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 29, 3:39 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Dodge City, KS | |
| May 29, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Dodge City, KS | Fifth tornado filmed by chaser. |
| May 29, 3:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Dodge City, KS | |
| May 29, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Dodge City, KS | Tornado filmed by another chaser. |
| May 29, 4:23 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Dodge 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 29, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 9 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
- 44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 877 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 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 292035 RRA SVRDDC KSC057-292120- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 335 PM CDT THU MAY 29 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 420 PM CDT * THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER OPEN COUNTRY. * AT 332 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF HOWELL MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...BE PREPARED FOR HAIL UP TO 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY ~DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. 01/REITER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 46 min |
| May 29, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 35 min |
| May 29, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 49 min |
| May 29, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 61 min |
| May 29, 4:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ford | 49 min |
| May 29, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 46 min |
| May 29, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 33 min |
| May 29, 4:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ford | 2 hr |
| May 29, 4:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Ford | 113 min |
| May 29, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stanton | 48 min |
| May 29, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 48 min |
| May 29, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark, Ford | 34 min |
| May 29, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 46 min |
| May 29, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 63 min |
| May 29, 6:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Clark | 3 hr |
| May 29, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 48 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.