Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 1, 1997, 9:19 PM CST for Cheyenne County, Kansas. It was in force for 66 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
- Apr 1, 1997, 9:19 PM CST (03:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 1997, 10:25 PM CST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cheyenne County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:22 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1850 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 641 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 020321 RRA SVRGLD KSC023-020425- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 819 PM MST TUE APR 1 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL CHEYENNE COUNTY KANSAS - IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 1025 PM CST (925 PM MST) * AT 918 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR IN THE VICINITY OF GOODLAND MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * PLEASE TAKE COVER IF YOU ARE4 IN THE WARNED AREA. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! MARTELLO
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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 1, 3:30 PM CST, 5 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 1, 3:30 PM CST, 5 hours 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 230 PM MST (330 PM CST) TUE APR 1 1997 ...MAIN FCST CHALLENGE IS LOCATION OF CUT OFF LOW OVER SOUTHWESTERN US... .UPPER AIR... 150 KT JET MAX WAS COMING DOWN THE BACK SIDE OF THE DEVELOPING CUT OFF LOW OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN US AT 01/12Z. MODEL CONSENSUS SHOWS LOW WILL CUT OFF BY WEDNSDY MORNG AND REMAIN OVER THE SOUTHWEST THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. BY THURSDAY MORNG...MODELS VARY IN PLACEMENT OF LOW FROM EXTREME SOUTHERN CA TO EXTRM STHRN UT. HAV CHOSEN THE NGM AS MODEL OF CHOICE AND REFINED POSITION SOUTH THURS MORNG TO EXTRM WEST CENTRL AZ. THIS WAS BASED ON MODEL ENSEMBLE LOCATIONS COUPLED WITH STRONG JETMAX STILL DIGGING ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE TROF...EXPECT THE LOW TO DIG A LITTLE MORE THAN EXPECTED. AT 20Z...PLATVILLE PROFILER DATA SHOWS BACKING WINDS IN MID LVLS FROM 800 TO 600 MB...EVIDENT OF APCHG SHORTWAVE EMBEDDED IN RATHER STRONG SOUTHWEST FLOW. AT 850 MB THIS MORNING...MOISTURE AXIS WAS EXTENDING FROM THE TX PANHANDLE TO WRN KS WITH 6C DEWPT AT DDC. EXPECT THE GULF TO REMAIN WIDE OPEN AND MOISTURE TO INCREASE WITH TIME. NGM GRIDDED X-SCTN SHOWS MOISTURE INCREASING WITH TIME. MIXING RATIOS RISE ABOVE 10 G/KS BY THURSDAY MORNING. .SFC... AT 20Z...A RATHER COMPLEX PATTERN WAS EVIDENT WITH A COLD FRONT EAST OF IML TO EAST OF AKO TO NEAR DENVER. SFC TROF WAS FROM SOUTHEAST OF TRB TO NEAR CBK TO MCK. TROF HAS DRIFTED BACK TO THE NORTHWEST LAST FEW HRS MOST LIKELY IN RESPONSE TO APCHG WEAK UPR LVL SYSTEM. EXPECT FRONT AND TROF TO COMBINE BY WEDNSDY MORNING AND TO STILL BE LOCATED OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EXTREME ERN CO. .CLDS... CLDS CONT TO INCREASE THIS AFTN ACRS ERN PTN OF CWA ALG AND AHD OF TROF WHERE MOISTURE IS GREATER. EXPECT ENTIRE AREA TO BECOME CLOUDY TONIGHT AS WEAK UPR LVL SYS COMBINES WITH MOISTURE INFLOW. SKIES SHOULD REMAIN CLOUDY THROUGH TUESDAY...HOWEVER SOME BREAKS ARE LIKELY THURSDAY. .PCPN... EXPECT THE BEST CHANCE FOR RAIN FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. HAVE CUT POPS SGNFCNTLY TONIGHT FROM PREVIOUS FCST BASED ON AVAILABILITY OF MOISTURE AND STRENGTH OF APCHG SHORTWAVE. HAV FOLLOWED GUIDENCE RATHER CLOSELY 2ND THROUGH 4TH PDS. .TEMPS... HAVE GONE CLOSELY WITH GUIDENCE...EXCPT BUMPED UP TEMPS TONIGHT DUE TO HIGHER SFC MOISTURE IN AREA. GLD 043/055/042 374 HLC 047/057/046 464 CBK 045/056/043 374 MCK 045/055/045 464 TRB 045/057/043 464 ITR 041/053/041 374 SKIPPER
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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.