Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 5, 1997, 4:59 PM CDT for Scott County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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
- Jul 5, 1997, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1997, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Scott County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 5:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Modoc, KS | |
| Jul 5, 5:42 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Shallow Water, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1789 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 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 052159 RRA TORDDC KSC171-052245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 459 PM CDT SAT JUL 5 1997 * TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN SCOTT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED MODOC BY 510 PM CDT * AT 458 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTERS INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH OF MODOC MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. GO TO THE BASEME^NT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! NICHOLS/MCAVOY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 46 min |
| Jul 5, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Stanton | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 60 min |
| Jul 5, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 50 min |
| Jul 5, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 48 min |
| Jul 5, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 48 min |
| Jul 5, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 45 min |
| Jul 5, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 49 min |
| Jul 5, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 49 min |
| Jul 5, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 46 min |
| Jul 5, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 47 min |
| Jul 5, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 32 min |
| Jul 5, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 48 min |
| Jul 5, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ness | 31 min |
| Jul 5, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 49 min |
| Jul 5, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 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.