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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Kansas City, MO
NWS Kansas City, MO issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1997, 11:35 PM CDT for Miami County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 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, 11:35 PM CDT (04:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1997, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Kansas City, MO
- Area
- Whole counties
County Miami County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 25, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 982 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1108 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WUUS1 KMCI 260430 RRA
SVRMCI
KSC121-260500-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO
1135 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 1997
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
MIAMI COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
OSAWATOMIE BY 1140 PM
PAOLA BY 1140 PM
* AT 1130 PM WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF OSAWATOMIE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM CAN EXPECT WIND GUSTS 65 MPH OR
HIGHER AND HAIL ONE INCH IN DIAMETER OR GREATER.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FOR
YOUR SAFETY...MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO
WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY
DO PRODUCE TORNADOES.
MANIONWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Kansas City, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 25, 2:55 PM CDT, 8 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 25, 2:55 PM CDT, 8 hours 40 minutes before
NORTHWEST MISSOURI FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 255 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 1997 AS PER PREVIOUS AFD...HVY RAFL THREAT BIGGEST CONCERN IN SHORT TERM WITH SVR WX A CONCERN AS WELL. QSTNRY FRONT MORE OR LESS STRADDLING I-70 ATTM WITH SFC LOW INVOF DDC. VERY UNSTABLE AMS SOUTH OF BOUNDARY AND SLGTLY TO MDTLY SO TO THE NORTH. MODIFIED 12Z TOP SNDG USING M70S/M60S FOR SFC PARCEL AND GOT NEAR 2000 CAPE WITH LITTLE NEG AREA. HOWEVER...MID LVL WINDS ARE REALLY WEAK...SO SHEAR AND STORM RELATIVE FLOW WEAK AS WELL. WBZ PRETTY HIGH TOO SO WILL NOT MENTION SVR. TUFF CALL ON WHETHER OR NOT TO GO WITH FF WATCH. REASONS FOR: BOUNDARY NEARBY...SLOWING SHORT WAVE TROF IN KS...TROPICAL AMS IN PLACE...PORTIONS OF CWA WITH WET GROUND, ETC. REASONS AGAINST: FF GUIDANCE FAIRLY HIGH...850 WINDS FCST TO WEAKEN AND VEER THROUGHOUT NIGHT THEREBY WEAKENING OUR INFLOW OF HIGH THETA-E AIR...CONVECTIVE COMPLEX OVER OK SHOULD CUT OFF INFLOW AS WELL...BREAK IN TSRA ACTIVITY PSBL AFTER FIRST WAVE ROTATES THRU. ATTM...FEEL FF THREAT WONT BE WIDESPREAD ENUF TO WARRANT WATCH ALTHO FIGURE A FF WARNING OR TWO WILL LIKELY BE ISSUED TNGT. WILL OPT TO HIT HARD IN ZONES FOR NOW AND ALLOW EVE CREW TO REASSESS NEED FOR WATCH. LOOKS LIKE MAYBE A BREAK MON AM BEFORE NEXT SHORT WAVE ROTATES THRU LARGER TROF FOR LATE MON. WILL CONTINUE CURRENT CHC POPS AND THEN GO LIKELY FOR MON NIGHT AS LIFT INCREASES SUBSTANTIALLY AGAIN. ETA SHOWS SFC LOW TRACKING ALG KS/OK BORDER WITH BOUNDARY CONTINUING TO SAG SLOWLY SWD. THIS SEEMS REASONABLE...ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING HOW TNGTS ACTIVITY SHD GIVE BOUNDARY A SHOVE SWD. NEVERTHELESS...WITH 850 WINDS BACKING AROUND TO SSW IN SE KS AND ERLY WINDS IN OUR FA...CONVERGENCE SHD BE PRETTY GOOD. WITH GOOD UPWARD FORCING AND MOISTURE STILL IN PLACE...WILL CARRY LIKELY POPS...WITH +RA A THREAT AGAIN. PROXIMITY OF UPR LOW ON TUE WILL FORCE ME TO CARRY CHC POPS FOR TUE AS WELL. HIGHS THRU PD SHD REMAIN AOB NORM...ESP TUE BUT WILL LIKELY STICK CLOSER TO WARMER FWC GIVEN PSBLTY OF SEEING SOME BREAKS MON. HIGH DWPTS WILL KEEP MINS ABV FAN GUIDANCE TOO...CLOSER TO FWC AGAIN. .EAX...NONE. JM
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 25, 11:35 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
KSZ025-MOZ020>023-260530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PLEASANT HILL/KANSAS CITY MO 1135 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH 322 CANCELLED FOR A SMALL PART OF NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES AREA NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH 322... IN NORTHEAST KANSAS... ATCHISON IN NORTHWEST MISSOURI... BUCHANAN CLINTON CALDWELL LIVINGSTON THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ATCHISON...ST. JOSEPH...LATHROP...KINGSTON AND CHILLICOTHE. THE STRONGEST STORMS LIKELY TO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN SOUTH OF THE COUNTIES LISTED ABOVE THROUGH EARLY MONDAY MORNING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN STILL BE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT IN THESE COUNTIES...WITH FREQUENT LIGHTNING...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND THE POTENTIAL FOR SMALL HAIL...BUT THE LIKELIHOOD OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED MARKEDLY FOR THESE COUNTIES. SMITH
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.