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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 24, 1997Stanton County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 24, 1997, 4:08 PM CDT for Stanton County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 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: May 24, 1997, 4:08 PM CDT (21:08 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1997, 4:40 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Dodge City, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Stanton County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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
May 24, 4:30 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Manter, 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 167 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

315 
WFUS1 KDDC 242109 RRA
TORDDC
KSC187-242140-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
408 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  SOUTHERN STANTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 440 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  MANTER                     BY 415 PM CDT
  JOHNSON                    BY 430 PM CDT

* AT 405 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING
  TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MANTER MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

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

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, 4:18 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, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	34 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.