Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1997, 2:08 AM CDT for Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 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
- Jun 21, 1997, 2:08 AM CDT (07:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1997, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Smith County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:09 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.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 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
- 3148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRI 210708 RRA SVRGRI KSC183-210745- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 208 AM CDT SAT JUN 21 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...SMITH COUNTY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE IN ATHOL...SMITH CENTER AND LEBANON THROUGH 245 AM. AT 205 AM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG OR ABOUT 5 NORTH OF ATHOL. THIS STORM IS CABABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL AROUND IN INCH IN DIAMETER. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. THE STORM SHOULD REACH THE LEBANON AREA BETWEEN 230 AND 245 AM. PEOPLE IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD GET INTO A REINFORCED SHELTER FOR PROTECTION FROM DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. KISNER
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 20, 1:00 PM CDT, 13 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 1:00 PM CDT, 13 hours 8 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 100 PM CDT FRI JUN 20 1997 ONCE AGAIN...TSTMS AND TEMPS ARE THE MAIN CHALLENGES. WILL MAKE THIS A QUICK ONE WITH ANTICIPATED STORMS THIS AFTN. WILL FOLLOW ETA AS IT...AT THIS POINT...HAS PERFORMED VERY WELL WITH POSITION OF FRONT AND SFC LO PRES...AND ALSO WITH THE AMT OF LL MOISTURE THAT HAS ADVECTED NORTH INTO AREA TODAY. AT 17Z...SFC LO WAS DEEPENING AROUND GLD WITH STATIONARY FRONT SNAKING NORTH THRU THE MIDDLE OF NEB. OUTFLOW BOUNDARY EVIDENT FROM GRI/HSI SE TO THE SOUTH OF LNK AT 16Z STILL THERE...BUT TOUGHER TO SEE IN SFC OBS. THE BEGINNING OF A WARM FRONT ALSO TAKING SHAPE FROM SFC LO EAST ACROSS EXTREME NRN KS. TEMPS IN THE 80S/90S...AND DWPTS INTO THE LOW/MID 70S MAKING FOR VERY UNSTABLE CONDITIONS THIS AFTN. JUST WAITING FOR THE CAP TO BREAK LATE THIS AFTN AS TROF EVIDENT WITH PROFILERS OVER THE HI PLAINS MOVES EAST INTO THIS JUICY ATMOS. SCT TRWS TO FIRE LATE AFTN INTO THE EVENING. SVR STORMS LIKELY. AN MCS ALSO FCST TO FORM FROM CONVECTION THAT FIRES WEST OF US. THIS WORKS INTO CWA OVERNIGHT. WITH ALL THIS JUICE...WILL LEAVE MENTION OF HEAVY RAIN IN FCST. GIVEN LOWS THIS AM...AND ALL THE CLDS AND PRECIP EXPECTED TONIGHT...WILL BUMP LOWS TO ABOUT 70 SRN PART OF NEB...MID 60S NW. 70/75 KS. GENERAL S WIND 10/20 SHIFTING TO NE...GUSTY/VARIABLE WITH STORMS. TOMR...GOOD CHC STORMS LEFTOVER IN AM AND AGAIN LATE IN DAY FROM EXTREME SRN NEB INTO NCNTRL KS. SOME CHC TO THE NORTH AS WELL TEMPS RANGING FROM MID 80S NORTH OF FRONT IN NEB...TO 90/95 KS. NORTHEAST WIND 5/15 NEB. TOMR NIGHT...PRETTY QUITE AFTER EVENING STORMS FROM NEB/KS BORDER SOUTH. NEXT SYS ALSO BEGINS TO TAKE SHAPE WEST ON HI PLAINS...BUT WILL LIKELY NOT MAKE IT INTO CNTRL NEB JUST YET. LOWS ABIT COOLER WITH 65ISH TEMPS MORE WIDESPREAD IN NEB...ABOUT 70 IN KS. INTO SUNDAY...CHC TRWS AGAIN LATE IN DAY AS NEXT SYSTEM TAKES SHAPE VERY WARM TEMPS AGAIN AS SOUTHERLY FLOW REALLY PICKS UP. WOULD PUT INTO THE 90S AGAIN IN MANY AREAS...AND WELL INTO THE 90S KS. 30% AFTN POPS...ALLOW THEY MAY HOLD OFF TIL EVENING. GRI BU 070/085/065/092 6303 ODX BU 065/082/060/091 6303 LXN BU 065/084/060/093 6303 HBR BB 072/087/067/092 6433 BEL BB 075/092/069/094 6443 GURNEY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 2:00 AM CDT, 8 minutes before
NEZ075-061-076-060-077-084-082-072-040-062-063-083-047-074-048- 041-086-073-049-046-087-039-085-064-210800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 200 AM CDT SAT JUN 21 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 491 FOR MOST OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH-CENTRAL NEBRASKA HAS EXPIRED AND WILL NOT BE REISSUED... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 492 FOR PARTS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL NEBRASKA HAS EXPIRED AND WILL NOT BE REISSUED... EVENTHOUGH THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO RUMBLE ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTH-CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL AT LEAST SUNRISE...THE CHANCES FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAVE DECREASED. THEREFORE THE TORNADO WATCH...NUMBER 491...FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH-CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH... NUMBER 492...HAVE EXPIRED AT 2 AM AND WILL NOT BE REISSUED. AT 2 O/CLOCK...THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR YORK TO GRAND ISLAND TO HOLDREGE. THE STORMS ARE MAKING THEIR WAY TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. MORE SHOWERS EXTENDED TO THE NORTH OF THESE STORMS. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. WITH THE RAIN CONTINUING THIS MORNING...THOSE PLANNING TO BE OUTSIDE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE WET WEATHER. MOVE INDOORS WHEN STORMS ARE IN THE AREA. THOSE TRAVELING ACROSS SOUTH-CENTRAL NEBRASKA SHOULD SLOW DOWN WHILE DRIVING IN HEAVY RAINS. KISNER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 3:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell | 54 min |
Nearby
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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.