Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1997, 8:36 PM CDT for Decatur County, Gove County, Sheridan County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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 18, 1997, 8:36 PM CDT (01:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1997, 9:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Sheridan County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 419 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2816 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
454 WUUS1 KGLD 190138 RRA SVRGLD KSC039-063-179-190225- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 736 PM MDT SUN MAY 18 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR DECATUR COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS SHERIDAN COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 925 PM CDT (825 PM MDT) * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED HWY 23...8 MILES SOUTH OF HOXIE AROUND 830 PM CDT GRAINFIELD AROUND 840 PM CDT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOXIE AROUND 850 PM CDT PARK AROUND 855 PM CDT QUINTER AROUND 910 PM CDT SELDON AROUND 850 PM CDT * AT 834 PM CDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF HOXIE OR 7 MILES NORTH OF GRAINFIELD MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS MARTELLO
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, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 18, 3:26 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 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, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Thomas | 44 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.