Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 24, NWS Dodge City, KS
NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at Aug 20, 1997, 3:09 PM CDT for Clark County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 20, 1997, 3:09 PM CDT (20:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 1997, 3:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Dodge City, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clark County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 3:10 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Minneola, 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 1641 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1385 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KDDC 202009 RRA TORDDC KSC025-202055- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS 309 PM CDT WED AUG 20 1997 * TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 355 PM CDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INTERSECTION OF H160/283 BY 325 PM CDT * AT 307 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE THREAT OF A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF INTERSECTION OF H160/283 MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * THIS STORM WILL ALSO PRODUCE SOFTBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR HIGHWAY 283 AND REPLACES THE PREVIOUS WARNING THAT EXPIRES AT 310 PM. 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 INTER$IOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE HUTTON/MCAVOY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 9:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 48 min |
| Aug 20, 10:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 46 min |
| Aug 20, 10:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pratt | 48 min |
| Aug 20, 10:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stafford | 63 min |
| Aug 20, 12:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Kiowa | 48 min |
| Aug 20, 12:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 48 min |
| Aug 20, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark | 64 min |
| Aug 20, 2:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Clark | 33 min |
| Aug 20, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 63 min |
| Aug 20, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 47 min |
| Aug 20, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 50 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.