Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 216, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 1997, 8:35 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. 4 reports 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
- Sep 6, 1997, 8:35 PM CDT (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1997, 9:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cheyenne County, KS, Sherman County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 8:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | St Francis Arpt, KS | Wind gust to 70 mph measured at St. Francis Airport. Tree branches up to 6 inches in diameter downed 9 miles SSW of St. Francis at 1945 CST. |
| Sep 6, 9:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Wheeler, KS | Winds estimated to 70 mph damaged antenna mounting brackets on county communication tower. |
| Sep 6, 9:08 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 59 | Goodland, KS | 68 mph gust recorded at Goodland CATV. |
| Sep 6, 9:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Bird City, KS | Several tree limbs up 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2275 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 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 Sep 6, 7:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 7:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 627 PM MDT (727 PM CDT) SAT SEP 6 1997 MCS DEVELOPMENT SEEMS LIKELY PER MESOANALYSIS...RADAR IMAGERY AND SATELLITE IR LOOPS...ESPECIALLY AREAS IN THETA-E RIDGE N OF I-70 CORRIDOR. ALSO...LOCAL AREA SOUNDINGS SHOW DRY LOW LVLS UP TO 7 AND 8 KFT...SO DID PUT IN GUSTY WIND MENTIONS TOO. SAW NO REASON TO WAIT ANY FURTHUR TO INCREASE POPS...ESPECIALLY NW CWA. MARTELLO
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 6, 6:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KANSAS
428 PM MST SAT SEP 06 1997
TIME(MST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0350 PM VERNON CO 60 MPH TSTM GUST
09/06/97 YUMA SPOTTER ESTIMATED WINDS OF
AT LEAST 60 MPHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 46 min |
| Sep 6, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson, Yuma | 30 min |
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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.