Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Kansas City, MO

March 24, 1997Leavenworth County, Kansas

NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1997, 5:30 PM CST for Leavenworth County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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: Mar 24, 1997, 5:30 PM CST (23:30 UTC)
Expired: Mar 24, 1997, 6:15 PM CST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Kansas City, MO
Area: Whole counties

County Leavenworth County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 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
Mar 24, 5:32 PM CST	Hail 1.75	Leavenworth, KS
Mar 24, 6:19 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Basehor, 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
Mar 24, 3:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 56 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1838 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 441 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 504 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.

000 
TTAA00 KMCI 242329 RRA
SVRMCI
KSC103-250015-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
530 PM CST MON MAR 24 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  LEAVENWORTH COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CST
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
    TONGANOXIE
    JARBALO
    FORT LEAVENWORTH

* AT 527 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF
  LAWRENCE AND 3 MILES WEST OF LEAVENWORTH MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
  MPH.

* THE STORM WILL BE THESE STORMS WILL BE AT FORT LEAVENWORTH AND
  TONGANOXIE AT 540 PM.   THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE 1 INCH HAIL OR
  LARGER.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.

rA TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND
OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES.

BEUSTERIEN/BROWNING

The office that day

Everything else NWS Kansas City, MO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 24, 5:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Leavenworth	30 min
Mar 24, 5:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Wyandotte	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.