Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1997, 12:28 AM CDT for Logan County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 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
- Aug 17, 1997, 12:28 AM CDT (05:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1997, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Logan County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 12:40 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Russell Spgs, KS | Tree branches 2 to 3 inches in diameter downed. |
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 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 2534 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2311 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 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 Aug 16, 9:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 9:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 823 PM MDT (923 PM CDT) SAT AUG 16 1997 THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN COLORADO SLOW TO MOVE THIS EVENING PER GLD 88D. HOWEVER...MODELS INDICATE LOW LVL MSTR CONVERGENCE AND THETA-E RIDGE POSN ALG CO-KS BORDER. WITH NE SFC WINDS AND HIER DEWPOINTS ADVECTING INTO W PARTS OF CWA...WILL INCREASE POP CHANCES AND MENTION TSTMS FOR ALL ZONES TONIGHT. WOULD EXPECT SOME STORMS TO LOSE INTENSITY BUT MAKE EASTWARD PROGRESSION THRU 06Z. NGM/ETA ALSO PUTS SOME QPF IN CWA UP TIL 12Z AND WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE HIER AMOUNTS ACROSS FAR E COLORADO. HAVE GENERALLY LEFT TEMPS AND WIND SPEEDS ALONE AS UPDATE WILL BE ISSUED BY 0230Z. .GLD...NONE. KPL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 46 min |
| Aug 16, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 47 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.