Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1997, 10:48 PM CDT for Phillips County, Kansas. It was in force for 42 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
- Jun 15, 1997, 10:48 PM CDT (03:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1997, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Phillips County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 11:07 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Logan, KS | Thunderstorms that moved out of south-central Nebraska produced some large hail near Logan. Crops in this area were damaged. |
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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 927 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRI 160349 RRA SVRGRI KSC147-160430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1048 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...WESTERN PHILLIPS COUNTY AT 1040PM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING SOUTHEAST TOWARD PHILLIPSBURG AND LOGAN. THE STORM...LOCATED 20 MILES WEST OF PHILLIPSBURG OR 6 MILES WEST OF PRAIRIE VIEW WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE BETWEEPRAIRIE VIEW AND LOGAN AND REACH LOGAN BETWEEN 11 AND 1115PM. LARGE HAIL TO NEAR AN INCH TO AN INCH AND A QUARTER IN DIAMETER IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. PEOPLE IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD GET INTO A REINFORCED SHELTER FOR PROTECTION FROM DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. JB/LEW *
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 Jun 15, 2:49 PM CDT, 7 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:49 PM CDT, 7 hours 59 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 248 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997 MAIN QUESTION IS WHETHER THERE WILL BE ANY CONVECTION IN THE CWA WITH FROPA. 18Z SFC CHART HAD COLD FRONT YKN-BBW-GLD WITH SEVERAL TROFS AHEAD OF IT. UEX 88D HAD AT LEAST 5 BOUNDARIES SHOWING UP WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT TRIGGER CONVECTION. 60+ DEW POINTS OVER MOST OF THE CWA WITH SLIGHTLY LESS MOISTURE WORKING ITS WAY IN FROM THE NORTH AND WEST. ALOFT CLOSED LOW REMAINS IN THE DESERT SW KICKING OUT PIECES OF ENERGY AND ANOTHER S/W MOVING ACROSS THE NRN PLAINS. HANDLING OF THE CLOSED LOW DIFFERNT IN THE MODELS TODAY WITH THE ETA MOVING IT THE FASTEST TO THE EAST. THE NGM/AVN SIMILIAR IN ITS LOCATIONS BUT THE NGM FILLS IT MORE THAN THE AVN. IN ANY EVENT NGM/AVN PATTERN PREFERRED AND BY 48 HRS THE UPPER LOW PROGGED TO BE IN THE TX P/H. AFTER NRN STREAM TROF PASSES THROUGH THE AREA THIS EVENING FLOW ALOFT BECOMES NW ACROSS THE CWA. LOOKS LIKE FRONT HANGS UP IN SRN KS/OK AND COULD BE SOME HEAVY RAINS OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS BUT FEEL THIS WILL BE ALL SOUTH OF THE HSA. LOOKS TO ME LIKE THE HSI CWA IS PROBABLY OUT FROM UNDER THE GUN FOR ANY SEVERE WX THIS EVENING BUT JUST TO THE EAST AND SOUTH WHEN THE FRONT HITS THE 65 DEW POINTS IT COULD BE ANOTHER MATTER. PROBABLY COULD HAVE A FEW ISOLATED TRW IN THE KS CWA TONIGHT BUT FOR THE MOST PART THINK WE MAY HAVE MISSED OUT ON ANY BIG OUTBREAKS TODAY. SO CLOUDS SHOULD BE SCATTER OUT TONIGHT AND THEN MAINLY FAIR WEATHER FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD. TEMPERATURES COOLER ON MONDAY BUT WARM UP AGAIN ON TUESDAY. GRI BB 060/081/064/084 -000 HBR BB 063/080/062/082 1000 ODX BB 058/080/060/081 -000 LXN BB 057/080/062/082 -000 BLT BB 065/082/066/085 3000 GRIFFITH
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 15, 9:49 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
950 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0815 PM ROCKVILLE NE 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/15/97 SHERMAN
0828 PM BOELUS NE 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/15/97 HOWARD
0850 PM 4 SW CAIRO NE 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/15/97 HALL CROP DAMAGE
0905 PM ALDA NE 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/15/97 HALL
DROZDLocal storm report, Jun 15, 9:50 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
950 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0815 PM ROCKVILLE NE 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/15/97 SHERMAN
0828 PM BOELUS NE 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/15/97 HOWARD
0850 PM 4 SW CAIRO NE 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/15/97 HALL CROP DAMAGE
0905 PM ALDA NE 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/15/97 HALL
DROZDLocal storm report, Jun 15, 10:38 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1039 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1015 PM 6 S ARAPAHOE NE 1.25 INCH HAIL
06/15/97 FURNAS
DROZDLocal storm report, Jun 15, 10:39 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1039 PM CDT SUN JUN 15 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1015 PM 6 S ARAPAHOE NE 1.25 INCH HAIL
06/15/97 FURNAS
DROZDNearby
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.