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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Hastings, NE

May 7, 1997Jewell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1997, 4:08 PM CDT for Jewell County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 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 7, 1997, 4:08 PM CDT (21:08 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 1997, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Jewell County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 7, 4:10 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Randall, 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 231 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: 963 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 202 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What 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 Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 7, 2:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 7, 2:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 7, 11:03 AM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Valley	40 min
May 6, 10:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Sherman	31 min
May 6, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Valley	22 min
May 6, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Sherman	40 min
May 6, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall, Howard	55 min
May 7, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall, Howard	44 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.