Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 14, 1997, 8:17 PM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. 3 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 14, 1997, 8:17 PM CDT (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 1997, 9:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Thomas County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 8:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Brewster, KS | |
| Sep 14, 8:55 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Levant, KS | |
| Sep 14, 9:11 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Levant, 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 150117 RRA SVRGLD KSC193-150205- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 717 PM MDT (817 PM CDT) SUN SEP 14 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 905 PM CDT (805 PM MDT) * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED 7 MILES NORTH OF LEVANT AROUND 900 PM CDT * AT 818 PM CDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 1J7 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLBY OR 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEVANT MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! TURNER
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 14, 3:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 14, 3:08 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 208 PM MDT (308 PM CDT) SUN SEP 14 1997 ...FORECAST PROBLEM WILL BE POSITION OF LEE TROUGH THROUGH FIRST THREE PERIODS...THEN TIMING OF FROPA TUESDAY... ETA/AVN CLOSE ON INITIALIZATION THIS MORNING AND WITH 18 UTC SURFACE PRESSURE VERIFICATION...SO WILL LEAN TOWARD THEM EARLY IN THE PACKAGE. ETA HAD VERY GOOD VORT FIELD VERIFICATION USING WIND PROFILERS AND WATER VAPOR IMAGERY...SO WILL LEAN TO IT IN THE OUT PERIODS. LEE TROUGH TO MOVE EAST INTO KANSAS...POSSIBLY REACHING A COLBY TO LEOTI LINE BY 12 UTC MONDAY...THEN WASH OUT AS NEW TROUGH RAPIDLY INTENSIFIES OVER COLORADO PLAINS IN RESPONSE TO APPROACHING SHORTWAVE. SHORTWAVE. THIS SHORTWAVE INFLUENCES THE AREA MONDAY NIGHT/TUESDAY MORNING... AND PACIFIC FRONT BEGINS TO PUSH INTO AREA. BUT MOISTURE IS LIMITED AT MID LEVELS OF ATMOSPHERE...PER TIME/HEIGHT CROSS SECTIONS...AND GUIDANCE POPS...THEREFORE... APPEAR REASONABLE. TUESDAY...FROPA...BUT JUST WHERE IS THE QUESTION. AVN PUSHES FRONT WELL BY CWA BY TUESDAY MORNING...WHEREAS ETA HAS IT LYING ON A GOODLAND TO ELKHART LINE BY TUESDAY MORNING. WILL LEAN MORE TOWARD ETA SOLUTION SINCE IT APPEARS TO BE A LITTLE MORE CONSISTENT WITH ITS UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS. AVN UPPER DYNAMICS SIMILAR TO ETA BY 48 HOURS...AND SUGGESTS WITH SHORTWAVE LIFTING NORTHEAST THAT FRONT SHOULD STALL EITHER NEAR OR OVER EAST AND SOUTH PARTS OF CWA. WITH WEAK UPSLOPE AND LOWERING HEIGHTS...WILL AIM ABOVE GUIDANCE... ESPECIALLY SINCE MOISTURE WILL STILL BE AROUND FOR ISENTROPIC LIFTING MECHANISMS TO WORK WITH. TEMP FORECASTS ARE SIMILAR AMONG THE THREE MODELS THROUGH FIRST TWO PERIODS...AND WILL STAY NEAR GUIDANCE EXCEPT WHERE TROUGH AXIS CROSSES CWA DURING EARLY MORNING. THOSE SPOTS WILL GET FORECASTS ONE CATEGORY LOWER THAN GUIDANCE DUE TO A PERIOD OF LIGHT WIND AND CLEAR SKIES ALLOWING FOR RADIATIONAL COOLING AND DRYING. MONDAY NIGHT...ABOUT A CATEGORY ABOVE TONIGHT DUE TO STRONGER PRESSURE GRADIENT AND INCREASED CLOUDS. TUESDAY...ABOUT A CATEGORY COOLER THAN MONDAY DUE TO CLOUDS. COOLER AIR BEHIND PACIFIC FRONT WILL NOT REALLY PUSH IN UNTIL TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. .GLD...NONE. ENTWISTLE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 14, 8:08 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KANSAS
608 PM MST SUN SEP 14 1997
TIME(MST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0422 PM ST FRANCIS KS .75 INCH HAIL
09/14/97 CHEYENNE
0425 PM ST FRANCIS KS 1 INCH HAIL
09/14/97 CHEYENNE REPORTED AT THE POWER
PLANT
0544 PM 2 NW MC COOK NE 70 MPH TSTM GUST
09/14/97 RED WILLOW REPORTED BY MC COOK POLICE
0552 PM 2 SW ATWOOD KS .75 INCH HAIL
09/14/97 RAWLINS VIA KSN
0604 PM 2 SW ATWOOD KS .75 INCH HAIL
09/14/97 RAWLINS STRONG WINDS KNOCKED DOWN
TREE TOPS. REPORTED BY
PUBLIC.The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 49 min |
| Sep 14, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 60 min |
| Sep 14, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 64 min |
| Sep 14, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan, Thomas | 36 min |
| Sep 14, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 61 min |
| Sep 14, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 65 min |
| Sep 14, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 49 min |
| Sep 14, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 47 min |
| Sep 14, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 65 min |
| Sep 14, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 47 min |
| Sep 15, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 48 min |
| Sep 15, 12:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 61 min |
| Sep 15, 12:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Graham | 3 hr |
| Sep 15, 12:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 6 hr |
| Sep 15, 3:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Graham | 3 hr |
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.