Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1997, 10:48 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 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 24, 1997, 10:48 PM CDT (03:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1997, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mitchell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:47 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 24, 11:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Beloit, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 2814 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1246 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRI 250347 RRA SVRGRI KSC123-250415- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1048 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...MITCHELL COUNTY PEOPLE IN BELOIT CAN EXPECT ONE INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH THROUGH 1115. AT 1045 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM WACONDA LAKE TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF BELOIT. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE SHELTER INDOORS IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. BE ALERT FOR AREAS OF FLOODING AND DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS AREAS WHERE WATER IS FLOWING OVER ROADWAYS. PERSONS DRIVING IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD WATCH OUT FOR WATER OVER ROADS...IN UNDERPASSES AND NEAR SMALL STREAMS. KD
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 24, 5:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 5:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE ...RETRANSMISSION... 258 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 1997 CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION CONTINUE TO BE FORECAST PROBLEM. POSSIBLE FFA IN KS CWA. LATEST SFC MAP SHOWED COLD FRONT FROM NE NEB TO NW KS. 65-70 DEWPOINTS AHEAD OF THE FRONT. LITTLE ACTIVITY ON UEX 88D. SAT PIX SHOW CLOUDS GENRALLY S OF I80. ALOFT JET STREAM TO THE NORTH WITH SERIES OF S/WS MOVING THRU THE FLOW. PLENTY OF MOISTURE AT 8H. MODELS SIMILIAR IN THE BIG PICTURE KEEPING ZONAL FLOW ACROSS THE NRN TIER. APPEARS TO ME THE MODELS...ESPECIALLY THE NGM WANT TO HAVE THE FRONT NOW PASSING THRU THE CWA TO HANG UP SOMEWHERE IN S.C. NEB OR N.C KS. QPF FROM AFOS PRODUCTS KEEP 0.25 CONTOUR CLOSE TO THE CWA THRU 12Z AND HRLY FCST SOUNDING FROM ETA SHOWS HSI WITH 1.60 THRU 18Z WED. NATIONAL PRODUCTS TALKING ABOUT MCS FORMING ALONG THIS BOUNDARY AND WITH THE HEAVY RAIN THAT ALREADY FELL IN THE SE PTN OF THE CWA THIS WOULD ONLY FURTHER AGGRIVATE THE FLOODING THAT IS OCCURING. TEMPERATURES NEXT COUPLE DAYS SHOULD BE COOLER WITH EAST TO NORTHEAST FLOW AND CAA. SUGGEST WE KEEP POPS IN TONIGHT FOR AT LEAST EAST OF HSI/GRI AND S OF I80 AS WELL AS KS...THEN MAYBE RIGHT ALONG THE BORDER WED AM. IF THE MODELS ARE CORRECT WED SHOULD SEE RAIN IN KS AND MAY NEED FFA FOR JEWELL AND MITCHELL COUNTIES. GRI MB 067/075/064/080 3-00 HBR WB 066/075/065/080 6300 ODX BB 065/075/062/080 -000 LXN BB 065/075/063/080 -000 BLT TB 068/078/067/080 6400 GRIFFITH
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 10:40 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
NEZ075-076-077-084-063-086-049-087-085-064-250445- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1041 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAD FOCUSED FARTHER SOUTH AND EAST SO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. POLK...HAMILTON...YORK...ADAMS...CLAY...FILLMORE...FRANKLIN... WEBSTER...NUCKOLLS...THAYER. DROZD
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 10:41 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
NEZ075-076-077-084-063-086-049-087-085-064-250445- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1041 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAD FOCUSED FARTHER SOUTH AND EAST SO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. POLK...HAMILTON...YORK...ADAMS...CLAY...FILLMORE...FRANKLIN... WEBSTER...NUCKOLLS...THAYER. DROZD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 34 min |
| Jun 24, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell, Osborne | 41 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.