Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Goodland, KS

July 14, 1997Wichita County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1997, 7:11 AM CDT for Wichita County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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 14, 1997, 7:11 AM CDT (12:11 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 1997, 7:45 AM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:11 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
Jul 14, 7:30 AM CDT	Hail 0.88	Marienthal, 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 149 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3249 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 14, 3:09 AM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 3:09 AM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
209 AM MDT (309 AM CDT) MON JUL 14 1997

NIT PICKY PACKAGE FOR THIS MORNING.  SHOWERS DEVELOPING OVER CWA
APPARENTLY THE RESULT OF WEAK JET STREAK NOSING SOUTHEAST INTO AREA
COMBINED WITH MID-LEVEL FRONTOGENESIS.  PETTERSON F-FUNCTION IN ETA
700-500 MB LAYER MATCHES BEST COVERAGE OF SHOWERS.  GIVEN PROGRESS
OF FRONTOGENESIS AND DEGREE OF ETA COOL (ABOUT 8C) H70 POOL...WILL
FOLLOW THAT MODEL FOR THIS PACKAGE.

IMPRESSIVE HEIGHT AND THICKNESS INCREASES BODE WELL FOR WARMING
THINGS UP...BUT SHORTWAVES IN WEST NORTHWEST FLOW PLUS TROUGHS
MOVING AWAY FROM FRONT RANGE ALONG WITH INCREASE MIDDLE TO HIGH
LEVEL MOISTURE MAKE THE CLOUD/TEMP FORECAST A LITTLE MORE
COMPLICATED.  MODELS ARE CURRENTLY QUITE DRY IN 600-300 MB LAYER
THROUGH 48 HOURS...BUT WITH TRANSITION TO A FOUR CORNERS HIGH THEY
HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO UNDERESTIMATE AMOUNT OF MOISTURE RETURN AROUND
RING OF FIRE.

TROPICAL MOISTURE CURRENTLY MOVING NORTH AND SPREADING WIDER THROUGH
NEW MEXICO AND EASTERN ARIZONA POINT THIS OUT...PLUS UPPER LEVEL
MOISTURE FROM HURRICANE ENRIQUE SHOULD BEGIN TO ARRIVE BY END OF
PACKAGE.  WILL KEEP THE SILENT 10 POP FOR THIRD PERIOD GIVEN THIS
SCENARIO.

TEMPS WILL LEAN TOWARD SLIGHTLY COOLER FAN NUMBERS TODAY GIVEN EXTRA
SHOWERS AND CLOUD COVER...THEN TO FOLLOW ETA TREND TO JUMP TONIGHTS
MINS 2 CATEGORIES FROM THIS MORNINGS EXPECTED MINS AND TUESDAY MAXES
4-6 DEGREES ABOVE MONDAY MAXES.

POPS GENERALLY 20-5-10 ACROSS THE AREA.

ENTWISTLE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 6:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley	34 min
Jul 14, 6:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wichita	34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.