Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 1997, 9:37 PM CDT for Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 53 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
- Sep 8, 1997, 9:37 PM CDT (02:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1997, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Smith County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 9:55 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Smith Center, KS | |
| Sep 8, 10:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 | Smith Center, 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 372 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2720 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Sep 8, 2:59 PM CDT, 6 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 2:59 PM CDT, 6 hours 38 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 255 PM CDT MON SEP 8 1997 THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT OF GREATEST CONCERN...THEN TEMPS BEYOND. AT 18Z MDT SFC CDFNT WE'RE ANTICIPATING WAS LOCD FM CNTRL WY-VCNTY CDR TO NR PIR AND NEWD TO WRN MN. 19Z OBS NOW SHOW GUSTY N WINDS AT CDR/VTN SO WRN EDGE OF FNT WORKING SWD AT A GUD CLIP. ADAP HAS 2 AREAS MOIST CONVG...ONE ASSOC WITH TSRA IN ERN SD...ANOTHER OVER WRN HI PLNS. ALFT...FLOW PTTRN CHANGING OVR NRN PLAINS AS HTS RISE IN SW CAN AND FALL OVR MO VLY AHD OF MIDLVL S/WV DIGGING TWD GTLKS. FLOW SHUD CHNG TO MORE NLY COMPONENT THRU PD. 250 MB 80 KT JETSTREAK ALSO NOTED OVER NRN MT. AS THE PTTRN CHANGES...MDLS AGREE AND ARE RSBL WITH REAL WORLD THAT CDFNT WL BE DRIVEN SWD THRU CWA TONIGHT AND THERE'S LTL DOUBT THAT SCT TSRA WL OCCUR IN CWA AS IT INTERACTS WITH LLVL MOISTURE. QN IS WHERE WL SVR BE? AS HGHTS FALL...H7-H5 DPVA FM TAIL END OF S/WV AND RRQ OF H25 JETSTREAK RIDE OVER FNTL BNDRY TONITE TO PROVIDE QUITE A HELPING OF VVELS PER ETA...NGM HAS SAME IDEA BUT WKR. AMT OF CAA SPILLING INTO TROF AT 12Z ANLYS AND H20 VAP LOOP DKNG W/TIME TAFTN...TEND TO LEAN A LTL CLOSER TO STRONGER SYS DEPICTED BY ETA. OAX SNDG WAS ALRDY MDTLY UNSTABLE THIS AM...WHILE LBF HAS SHOWN SOME DESTABILIZATION THRU THE AM AT 17Z SNDG...BUT INCRSD CAP. GTST INSTAB FM SC NEB EWD WITH WKNG CAP. WL XPCT CONTD SWWD DVLPMT ALONG CDFNT FM SD INTO CNTRL NEB LATE TAFTN...THEN INTO RMNDR SC NE/NC KS LATER THIS EVENING. BEST MOIST CONVG...FRONTOGENETICAL FORCING AND THETE RIDGE IS PICKED UP MOSTLY TO WEST OF AREA WHERE SPC HAS SVR OTLK...BUT WITH SYN LIFT FM TAIL END OF S/WV AND JETLVL DVRG OVR AREA TONITE...CONFIDENCE THAT SOME THUNDERSTORMS WL BECOME SVR HAILERS THIS EVE IS BCMG BETTER WITH POSN SHIFTING FURTHER NE INCLDG MORE OF SC NEB. INSTAB AND WBZ WERE ALRDY FVRBL AT 12Z. ALL IN ALL...THE PRES FCST LUKS QUITE GOOD WITH SCT TSRA ALRDY IN THE FCST TONITE. AM A LTL CONCERNED THAT SYS MAY SLOW UP A BIT AS IT ENCOUNTERS WELL ENTRENCHED WARM/HUMID AMS (SIMILAR TO LAST WEEKS FROPA) AND SRN ZONES MAY BE A BIT TOO COOL FOR MINS. WUD LEAN CLOSER TO FWC AROUND 60 THERE...BUT NRN/WRN ZONES SHUD COOL OFF. BYND TON...CNSDBL MIDLVL MOISTURE/CLDS NOTED UPSTRM ASSOC WITH ADVANCING SYS AND ALSO POOL OF H8 MOISTURE BHND FNT...BUT NO CLDS. BLV LIFT WL DVLP PLENTY OF POST FNTL CLDS FOR MORNING HRS B4 SUBS/MIXG MELTS AWAY FOR AFTN AS DRIER AMS WORKS IN...AND LUKS LIKE SOME LINGERING LIFT MAY SQUEEZE OUT A FEW SHRA IN NC KS...THUS WL INCLDD IN ERLY AM. CAA SC SHUD CONTU UNTIL SUNDOWN OVER MOST AREAS ON TUES SO P/C AFTN LUKS GOOD. WATCHES COMING OUT ATTM FOR PART OF CWA THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED...SO 3RD-4TH PDS LUK CLEAR...DRY AND COOLER WITH CHG OF AMS. CCF SHUD COVER DETAILS OF OUTPDS. GRI BS 063/075/048/078 4-00 HEB BS 062/074/049/080 4100 ODX BS 058/073/048/077 4000 LXN BS 060/073/047/079 4-00 BEL BS 067/078/052/081 3200 BREWSTER
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 8, 8:38 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
838 PM CDT MON SEP 8 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0830 PM 3W CLAY CENTER NE 1.00 INCH HAIL
09/08/97 CLAY
MLMLocal storm report, Sep 8, 8:39 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
838 PM CDT MON SEP 8 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0830 PM 3W CLAY CENTER NE 1.00 INCH HAIL
09/08/97 CLAY
MLMLocal storm report, Sep 8, 8:48 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
848 PM CDT MON SEP 8 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0810 PM BRADSHAW NE 60 MPH WIND GUST
09/08/97 YORK TREE DAMAGE
MLMLocal storm report, Sep 8, 8:49 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
848 PM CDT MON SEP 8 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0810 PM BRADSHAW NE 60 MPH WIND GUST
09/08/97 YORK TREE DAMAGE
MLMLocal storm report, Sep 8, 9:10 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick | 52 min |
| Sep 8, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Hamilton | 58 min |
| Sep 8, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Howard | 58 min |
| Sep 8, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | York | 60 min |
| Sep 8, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore | 63 min |
| Sep 8, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams | 63 min |
| Sep 8, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls, Thayer | 56 min |
| Sep 8, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Kearney | 55 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1997Every 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.