Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Hastings, NE
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 11:09 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 63 | Phillipsburg, 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 44 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.