Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS

May 18, 1997Greeley County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1997, 5:47 PM MDT for Greeley County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. 3 reports 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
May 18, 1997, 5:47 PM MDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired
May 18, 1997, 6:35 PM MDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Greeley County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
May 18, 6:05 PM MDTHail 0.75Tribune, KS
May 18, 6:05 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 54Tribune, KS
May 18, 6:20 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 52Tribune, 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 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 185 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 12:00Z on 1997-05-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 185 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 12:00Z on 1997-05-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 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
185 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-446 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2337 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

683 
WUUS1 KGLD 182349 RRA
SVRGLD
KSC071-190035-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
547 PM MDT SUN MAY 18 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  GREELEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 635 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TRIBUNE           AROUND 545 PM MDT

* AT 545 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF TRIBUNE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

JENNER

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.