Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 29, 1997, 4:11 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1997, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 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 21:18 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, 4:23 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Dodge City, KS | |
| May 29, 4:37 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Dodge City, KS | |
| May 29, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Dodge City, KS | Tornado wrapped in rain much of the time, filmed by chaser. |
| May 29, 5:03 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Dodge City, KS | |
| May 29, 5:03 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 73 | Dodge City, KS | Irrigation system overturned. |
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, 9.2 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 292111 RRA TORDDC KSC057-292200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 411 PM CDT THU MAY 29 1997 * TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WRIGHT BY 430 PM CDT * AT 409 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF DODGE CITY MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER. CURRENT MOTION WILL KEEP THE THREAT AREA NORTH OF THE CITY OF DODGE CITY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS IN A BASEMENT. IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...GO THE AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE 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, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 45 min |
| May 29, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant | 61 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.