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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Hastings, NE

June 25, 1997Phillips County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1997, 10:30 PM CDT for Phillips County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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 25, 1997, 10:30 PM CDT (03:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 1997, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
45 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 03:31 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 25, 11:09 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 63Phillipsburg, 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 229 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1997-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1043 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1997-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1043 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1727 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGRI 260330 RRA
SVRGRI
KSC147-260415-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1030 PM CDT WED JUN 25 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
 
   ...PHILLIPS COUNTY
 
AT 1025 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AT HASTINGS SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
THAT COVERED MUCH OF EASTERN NORTON COUNTY AND WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT
15 MPH. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STORM WAS 20 MILES WEST OF PHILLIPSBURG.
THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO PRAIRIE VIEW AND LOGAN BETWEEN 1030 PM AND 1045
PM...THEN TO PHILLIPSBURG BETWEEN 1100 PM AND 1115 PM.
 
 
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/BW

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 25, 2:38 PM CDT, 7 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 2:38 PM CDT, 7 hours 52 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
235 PM CDT WED JUN 25 1997

...FORECAST IS TIMING AND CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION IN CWA...

CURRENT 1ST FRONTAL BOUNDARY SOUTH INTO KANSAS WITH APPEARANT
SECOND BOUNDARY OF DRYER AIR AND NORTHEAST FLOW INTO NORTHEAST
NEBRASKA. KUEX RADAR PPINE BUT KLNX HAS PLENTY OF ACTIVITY...WITH
THE STUFF AROUND VTN ASSOCIATED WITH RIGHT REAR OF JET STREAK LIFTING
NORTHEAST.  OTHER THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM OGA TO WEST.  THIS
COULD WORK INTO WRN AREAS BUT ADAP HAS CAPPED ENVIRONMENT AND LIMITED
LIFT IN OUR CWA. FAIRLY FLAT CU A TESTIMENT TO THAT.

ETA REALLY GOES AFTER SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AREA FOR STRONG LOW LEVEL
CONVERGENCE AND UPPER DIVERGENCE AT 18HRS.  NGM LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE
PROGS PINPOINT THIS AREA AS WELL.  QUESTION REMAINS WILL THIS WORK AT
ALL EAST.  FEEL WITH FORECAST OF BUILDING SURFACE HIGH INTO EASTERN
NEBRAKSA WE SHOULD BE DRY TONIGHT.  ONLY THE FAR WESTERN NEBRASKA/KANSAS
COULD CATCH A LATE NIGHT SHOWER/STORM.  BOTH THE NGM/ETA FORECAST
SOUNDINGS DEPICT PRECIPITATION THURSDAY WITH LINGERING FRONT RANGE
CONVECTION AND STRONG RETURN WARM ADVECTION FLOW.  DO FEEL MID DECK
CLOUD COVER WILL MOVE ACROSS NRN CWA TOMORROW AND LIMIT SUNSHINE.
SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SPRINKLES/STORM TO GO ALONG IT TO AND HAVE
INCLUDED IN CCF.  WILL LIKELY INCLUDE SLIGHT CHANCE POPS TONIGHT IN
TWO WESTERN KANSAS ZONES.

INTO FRIDAY...TROF OF LOW PRESSURE FORECAST TO MOVE EAST WITH
NICE SOUTHERLY FLOW AHEAD OF IT.  SOME MOISTURE CONVERGENCE
ALONG THIS TROF BUT NGM MOVES WAVE INTO EASTERN NEBRASKA.  SMALL
POPS NOT OUT OF QUESTION IN FAR WESTERN NEBRASKA CWA.  OTHERWISE
WARMER AND BREEZY WEATHER ANTICIPATED.  SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE ON
GUIDANCE NUMBERS FOR MOST OF THIS FORECAST.

GRI BB 059/083/062/090 1201
HBR BB 061/082/064/089 1200
ODX BB 055/082/060/091 1201
LXN BB 055/082/060/089 2312
BLT BB 062/084/065/091 0--0

MORITZ

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 10:06 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
NEZ060-072-082-260410-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1006 PM CDT WED JUN 25 1997

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 525 ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 10 PM...

THUNDERSTORMS HAD WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS AT 10 PM...THEREFORE
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ALLOWED THE TORNADO WATCH TO
EXPIRE ON THE HOUR.

COUNTIES CLEARED FROM THE WATCH IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA INCLUDE...

DAWSON...FURNAS AND GOSPER.

RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH THROUGH
THE OVERNIGHT HOURS WITH SKIES BECOMING PARTLY CLOUDY BY MORNING.

BREWSTER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 11:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips, Rooks44 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.