Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS Goodland, KS

August 29, 1997Rawlins County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 1997, 5:00 AM CDT for Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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 29, 1997, 5:00 AM CDT (10:00 UTC)
Expired: Aug 29, 1997, 6:05 AM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Rawlins County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 29, 5:15 AM CDT	Hail 1	Atwood, 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 1726 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -134 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2034 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 29, 4:11 AM CDT, 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 4:11 AM CDT, 49 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 28, 11:33 PM CDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
1032 PM MDT (1132 PM CDT) THU AUG 28 1997

...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER THE AREA...

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP FROM YUMA COUNTY
COLORADO TO DECATUR COUNTY KANSAS. AT 1130 PM CDT (1030 PM MDT) THE
STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED JUST EAST OF ATWOOD WHERE PEA SIZED HAIL
WAS REPORTED.

THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 2 AM CDT (1 AM MDT). BRIEF HEAVY
RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED
WITH THESE STORMS. MOST THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL OCCUR NORTH OF
INTERSTATE 70.

IF A THUNDERSTORM MOVES NEAR YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A BUILDING UNTIL
THE STORM ENDS.

MENTZER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 28, 11:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	49 min
Aug 29, 11:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	34 min
Aug 29, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy	49 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.