Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1997, 10:19 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 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
- Jul 8, 1997, 10:19 PM MDT (04:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1997, 11:20 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wallace County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 10:30 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Sharon Spgs, 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3154 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 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 Jul 8, 2:15 PM MDT, 8 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 2:15 PM MDT, 8 hours 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 215 PM MDT (315 PM CDT) TUE JUL 8 1997 ...PROBLEM OF DAY THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT... SOUNDINGS...SAT DERIVED PRODUCTS...ADAP...ETC HAVE AREA EXTREMELY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON WITH ERODING CAP. WINDS HAVE GONE UPSLOPE WITH MORE INFLOW OF ADDITIONAL UNSTABLE AIR IN RESPONSE TO SMALL LOW SOUTHERN PORTION OF CWA. MORNING CLOUDS AND EARLIER STORMS HAVE LEFT SOME BOUNDARIES OVER THE AREA. SO...WE SHOULD SEE A LOT OF CONVECTION ONCE CAP BREAKS. ALSO...OFTEN IN THIS PATTERN STUFF THAT FORMS OVER CO BECOMES MORE WIDESPREAD AS IT MOVES INTO MORE UNSTABLE AIR DOWN THE HILL. WILL GO WELL ABOVE GUIDANCE. SEVERE STORMS MORE PROBLEMATIC IN ABSENCE OF MUCH SHEAR...BUT WITH CAPES AT LEAST 3500 PULSY STUFF WITH NUISANCE SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE. AFTER TONIGHT...DRIER WITH ALL MODELS AGREEING ABOUT RIDGE BUILDING ALOFT AS BIG SYSTEM IN SOUTHWEST TRIES TO NUDGE THINGS EAST. WAS NOT WILLING TO UNDERCUT 20-30 POPS WED NIGHT DUE TO UNCERTAINTY WE HAVE HAD WITH NOCTURNAL PRECIP LATELY. FOR TEMPS MOS HAS BEEN TOO COOL DAYS AND GOOD NIGHTS LATELY. EXPECT THIS TO CONTINUE UNTIL REGIME CHANGES MORE. KWIATKOWSKI
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 8, 6:48 PM MDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
648 PM MDT TUE JUL 8 1997
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0500 PM 26 SW GOVE KS 1.25 INCH HAIL
07/08/97 GOVE
0515 PM 1 W FLAGLER CO 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/08/97 KIT CARSON
TURNERLocal storm report, Jul 8, 6:49 PM MDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
648 PM MDT TUE JUL 8 1997
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0500 PM 26 SW GOVE KS 1.25 INCH HAIL
07/08/97 GOVE
0515 PM 1 W FLAGLER CO 1.00 INCH HAIL
07/08/97 KIT CARSON
TURNERSpecial weather statement, Jul 8, 9:10 PM MDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
COZ090>092-090415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 910 PM MDT TUE JUL 8 1997 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO HAS EXPIRED... AT 9 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM EXTREME SOUTHEAST YUMA COUNTY INTO EASTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY OF EASTERN COLORADO. ALTHOUGH...SOME SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THIS LINE...SEVERE WEATHER IS NO LONGER EXPECTED. THEREFORE...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ALLOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR YUMA...KIT CARSON...AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES TO EXPIRE AS SCHEDULED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. BARKER
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 9:11 PM MDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
COZ090>092-090415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 910 PM MDT TUE JUL 8 1997 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO HAS EXPIRED... AT 9 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM EXTREME SOUTHEAST YUMA COUNTY INTO EASTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY OF EASTERN COLORADO. ALTHOUGH...SOME SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THIS LINE...SEVERE WEATHER IS NO LONGER EXPECTED. THEREFORE...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ALLOWED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR YUMA...KIT CARSON...AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES TO EXPIRE AS SCHEDULED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION OR CABLE TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. BARKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 8:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 65 min |
| Jul 8, 9:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 10:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 10:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 48 min |
| Jul 8, 11:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Thomas | 64 min |
| Jul 8, 7:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Kit Carson | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 7:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 8:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 48 min |
| Jul 8, 9:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 48 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.