Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1997

Tornado Warning 7, NWS Dodge City, KS

May 25, 1997Lane County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this tornado warning at May 25, 1997, 4:36 PM CDT for Lane County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 1997, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1997, 5:05 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Lane County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 93 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1997-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 313 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1997-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 90 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
313 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-166 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1225 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

757 
WFUS1 KDDC 252137 RRA
TORDDC
KSC101-252205-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
436 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  SOUTHERN LANE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 505 PM CDT
 
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER OPEN COUNTRY.

* AT 432 PM CDT...DODGE CITY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING
  TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DIGHTON MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER OPEN COUNTRY SOUTH OF DIGHTON.

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

KRUSE/CICCONE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney31 min
May 24, 7:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCScott35 min
May 24, 8:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord62 min
May 24, 9:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Meade32 min
May 24, 9:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord33 min
May 25, 4:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCTrego61 min
May 25, 4:19 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCTrego31 min
May 25, 4:31 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCFinney29 min
May 25, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis30 min
May 25, 4:54 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCTrego46 min
May 25, 5:16 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis34 min
May 25, 5:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis47 min
May 25, 5:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis32 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 1997Every tornado warning in 1997Tornadoes in 1997

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.