Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1997, 7:46 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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
- May 18, 1997, 7:46 PM CDT (00:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1997, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Rawlins County, KS, Thomas County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 8:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Herndon, 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 1010 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
105 WUUS1 KGLD 190048 RRA SVRGLD KSC153-193-190130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 646 PM MDT SUN MAY 18 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR RAWLINS COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 830 PM CDT (730 PM MDT) * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ATWOOD AROUND 750 PM CDT JCT HWY 117 AND HWY 36 AROUND 750 PM CDT 5 MILES NORTH OF REXFORD AROUND 815 PM CDT BREWSTER AROUND 755 PM CDT GEM AROUND 755 PM CDT LEVANT AROUND 755 PM CDT * AT 742 PM CDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ATWOOD MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS BULLER
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 18, 3:26 PM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 18, 3:26 PM CDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 226 PM MDT (326 PM CDT) SUN MAY 18 1997 ...MAIN FCST CHALLENGE IS TIMING OF FRONT AND CHCS FOR PCPN... .UPR AIR... RELATIVELY HIGH ZONAL FLOW WILL CONTINUE OVER THE AREA THE NEXT 2 DAYS. THE MAIN ENERGY WITH THE SHORTWAVE THIS MORNING WAS OVER THE NORTHCENTRAL STATES AS EVIDENCE OF HEIGHT FALLS GREATER THAN 70 METERS AT 500 MB EXTENDING FROM ERN MT TO WRN ND. MAIN ENERGY WITH THIS SYS IS EXPECTED TO SWEEP NORTH OF THE CWA...OVER THE NORTHERN STATES. .SFC... COLD FRONT BEARING DOWN ON THE AREA FROM SOUTHEASTERN WY AND THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. LOOKS LIKE FROPA AT BFF WAS BETWEEN 17Z AND 18Z. CALCULATIONS SHOW FRONTS SPEED ABOUT 20 KTS OVER THE PAST 10 HRS. EXPECT AN ACCELERATION OF THE FRONT BY THIS EVENING AND STRONG NORTH WINDS DEVELOP ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE LOW. THE FRONT SHOULD ENTER THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE CWA AROUND 00Z AND SHOULD CLEAR GREELEY AND WICHITA COUNTIES BY 06Z. .MODEL CHOICE... WILL GO WITH ETA AS THE MODEL OF CHOICE WITH SOME MODIFICATIONS. LIKED THE PLACEMENT AND THE ACCELERATION OF THE FRONT OF THE ETA OVER THE NGM. NGM HAS SFC WINDS OF ONLY AROUND 10 KTS AT MIDNIGHT. BELIEVE WINDS WILL BE IN THE BREEZY CATEGORY FOR THE MOST PART...BUT WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE WINDY CONDITIONS FOR AN HOUR OR 2 AFTER FROPA. FOUM68 MODEL OUTPUT DATA SHOWS NGM WITH SOMEWHAT WEAKER WINDS AT DDC AFTER FROPA. CONSIDERING THE NGM WIND SPEEDS ARE USUALLY TO LOW WITH THIS TYPE OF PATTERN...WILL BUMP WINDS UP SOMEWHAT FROM GUIDENCE. .TEMPS... MADE SOME MODIFICATIONS TO NGM GUIDENCE. BUMPED DOWN TEMPS TONIGHT AT HLC. BELIEVE FRONT WILL BE STRONG AND FAST ENOUGH FOR THE COOLER AIR TO REACH THE EASTERN CWA BEFORE 12Z. FOR MONDAY...ADJUSTED TEMPS TO MATCH THICKNESS PATTERN...LOWERED ERN ZONES AND RAISED WESTERN ZONES FROM GUIDENCE. FOR THE DAY TUESDAY...WENT ABOVE GUIDENCE TUESDAY OVER THE WESTERN AREAS. EXPECT TEMPERATURES TO RECOVER TO NEAR NORMAL BY TUESDAY WITH GOOD SOUTHERLY FLOW. AVN 60 HOUR THICKNESS FCST SHOWS VALUES AROUND 5730 METERS. .PCPN... BELIEVE THE ETA OVER DOES THE PCPN OVER THE NORTHERN AREAS...BUT LOOKS REASONABLE ELSEWHERE. CLUSTER OF TSTMS APCHG ERN COLORADO. STRONG COLD FRONT WITH MARGINAL SFC MOISTURE AHEAD OF THE FRONT SHOULD PROVIDE ENOUGH LIFT FOR THE STORMS TO SUSTAIN THEMSELVES THIS EVENING. EXPECT OVERALL RAINFALL AMOUNTS TO BE RATHER LIGHT CONSIDERING THE FAST SPEED OF THE FRONT...LIMITATIONS OF SIGNIFICANT AND DEEP MOISTURE OVER THE AREA AND THE LACK OF STRONG DYNAMICS. GLD 043/064/043/077 7-0 HLC 047/065/041/075 810 CBK 044/064/044/076 7-0 ITR 042/066/043/078 7-0 TRB 046/068/044/078 81- MCK 044/064/041/075 7-0 SKIPPER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 58 min |
| May 18, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 47 min |
| May 18, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Gove, Sheridan | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.