Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1997, 8:42 PM CDT for Decatur County, Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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
- May 6, 1997, 8:42 PM CDT (01:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1997, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Decatur County, KS, Rawlins County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:44 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 447 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 070142 RRA SVRGLD KSC039-153-070230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 742 PM MDT TUE MAY 6 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN DECATUR COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS RAWLINS COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT (830 PM MDT) * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED HWY 36...7 MILES WEST OF OBERLIN AROUND 850 PM CDT OBERLIN AROUND 905 PM CDT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF OBERLIN AROUND 920 PM CDT * AT 841 PM CDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES WEST OF OBERLIN MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINdDOWS. BARKER
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 May 6, 3:01 PM CDT, 5 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 3:01 PM CDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 200 PM MDT (300 PM CDT) TUE MAY 6 1997 ...BIGGEST PROBS THIS FCST PCKG IS TIMING OF DYNAMICS... MODELS WERE IN DECENT AGREEMENT THIS AM. NGM SEEMED TO HAVE BETTER HANDLE ON SFC FEATURES...ESP WITH LEE TROF. HWVR...ETA DID MUCH BETTER WITH UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS. ONLY PROBLEM IS THE STRENGTH OF THE NEXT SHWV COMING OUT OF GRT BASIN. SAT WV IMAGERY PICKS UP SHWV WELL BUT MODELS DONT SEEM TO HAVE A HANDLE ON IT...SO TIMING IS VERY UNCERTAIN. EXPECT SHWV TO MV THRU FA TONIGHT WITH WK COLD FNT...WITH TSTMS PSBL ACROSS FA THIS EVE INTO TONIGHT. SOME SVR PSBL IN ERN ZONES BUT EXPECT ONLY MARGINAL ELSEWHERE. LIKED ETA DYNAMICS INTO TMRW AND OUT PDS AS STRONGER SHWV BEGINS TO SLIDE DOWN BACKSIDE OF WK RIDGE. EXPECT GOOD PVA AHEAD OF SYS DURING DAY TOMORROW. FA STAYS IN RIGHT REAR QUAD OF 300 MB JET SO SYNOPTIC LIFT SHUD BE ENHANCED. MSTR SHUD STAY IN PLACE BEHIND WK FNT AND SOME UPSLOPE WITH NE WINDS WILL HELP FORM MORE WIDESPREAD TSTMS. AGAIN...QUESTION IS TIMING. FEEL TSTMS WILL CONT ACROSS FA INTO TMRW NGHT BUT SHUD DISSIPATE AS NVA WORKS IN. GOOD SUBSIDENCE IN 750-300 Q-VECT CNVRG AND LESS MSTR SO SHUD EXPECT MILD BUT COOLER CONDS IN 4TH PD. STAYED CLOSE TO FWC THRU ALL BUT 4TH PDS. FWC HAS BEEN TOO COOL PAST FEW DAYS WITH 4TH PD SO FOLLOWED TREND. OTHERWISE...ONLY DEVIATED A DEGREE OR TWO. GLD 053/077/043/068 243 HLC 056/079/047/071 243 CBK 054/078/045/070 243 MCK 052/077/044/069 243 TRB 056/080/046/070 243 ITR 052/077/044/069 243 GONSOWSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 48 min |
| May 6, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 49 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.