Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1997, 8:52 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 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
- Jun 25, 1997, 8:52 PM CDT (01:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1997, 9:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rawlins County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:53 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 179 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 Jun 25, 8:44 PM CDT, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 8:44 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 744 PM MDT (844 PM CDT) WED JUN 25 1997 BASED ON STATUS REPORT FROM SPC AND REFERING TO RADAR OPERATOR... WILL LOCALLY EXTEND TORNADO WATCH FOR CHEYENNE AND KIT CARSON COUNTIES OF COLORADO UNTIL 04Z. HOWEVER...WL LET TORNADO WATCH FOR YUMA COUNTY EXPIRE AT 02Z. GLD 061/087/062/093 522 HLC 063/089/067/095 422 CBK 062/088/063/093 522 MCK 063/089/065/095 422 TRB 059/089/061/094 522 ITR 060/087/062/094 622 BULLER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 4:52 PM CDT, 4 hours before
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-NEZ079>081-260255-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
352 PM MDT (452 PM CDT) WED JUN 25 1997
...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 525 IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST KANSAS
AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA UNTIL 10 PM CDT (9 PM MDT)...
...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 523 REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME EAST
CENTRAL COLORADO UNTIL 8 PM MDT...
STRONG AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH TORNADOES...HAVE
DEVELOPED NORTH AND WEST OF THE AREA. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
BECOME MORE NUMEROUS THIS EVENING AND PASS THROUGH THE AREA. THE
STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS...BRIEF
TORRENTIAL RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND LARGE HAIL.
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 525 IS IN EFFECT ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM
SHARON SPRINGS TO WAKEENEY AND INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN
GOODLAND AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY...
IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...DUNDY...HITCHCOCK...AND RED WILLOW
IN NORTHWEST KANSAS...
CHEYENNE...RAWLINS...DECATUR... NORTON
SHERMAN... THOMAS... SHERIDAN...GRAHAM
WALLACE... LOGAN... AND GOVE
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 523 CONTINUES UNTIL 8 PM MDT FOR YUMA...KIT
CARSON...AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL COLORADO.
THE KEY TO SURVIVAL IS ADVANCED PLANNING. YOU SHOULD KNOW WHERE
THE SAFEST AREAS OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS ARE...SUCH AS INTERIOR
ROOMS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.
IF YOU OBSERVE HAIL OF DIME SIZE OR LARGE...WINDS OF 60 MPH OR
MORE...OR A TORNADO PLEASE NOTIFY YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
GOODLAND.
ENTWISTLELocal storm report, Jun 25, 6:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
549 PM MDT (649 PM CDT) WED JUN 25 1997
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0517 PM 18 N YUMA CO 0.88 INCH HAIL
06/25/97 YUMA 7 MILES WEST OF CLARKVILLE
ENTWISTLESpecial weather statement, Jun 25, 8:47 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
COZ090-260250- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 748 PM MDT WED JUN 25 1997 ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR YUMA COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 8 PM MDT... THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SOUTH OUT OF YUMA COUNTY BY 8 PM. AS THE STORMS MOVE OUT OF THE COUNTY...THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL DIMINISH. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR YUMA COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE ON SCHEDULE AT 8 PM MDT. SKIPPER
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 8:48 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
COZ090-260250- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 748 PM MDT WED JUN 25 1997 ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR YUMA COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 8 PM MDT... THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SOUTH OUT OF YUMA COUNTY BY 8 PM. AS THE STORMS MOVE OUT OF THE COUNTY...THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL DIMINISH. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR YUMA COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE ON SCHEDULE AT 8 PM MDT. SKIPPER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 60 min |
| Jun 25, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 66 min |
| Jun 25, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 65 min |
| Jun 25, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Thomas | 65 min |
| Jun 25, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 67 min |
| Jun 25, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 62 min |
| Jun 25, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 49 min |
| Jun 25, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 62 min |
| Jun 25, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 62 min |
| Jun 25, 9:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 35 min |
| Jun 25, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 36 min |
| Jun 25, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 10:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 34 min |
| Jun 25, 11:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Greeley | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 36 min |
| Jun 25, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 60 min |
| Jun 25, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 64 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.