Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 8, 1997, 1:11 PM CDT for Cheyenne County, Kansas; Dundy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 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
- Oct 8, 1997, 1:11 PM CDT (18:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 1997, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cheyenne County, KS, Dundy County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 1:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | St Francis, KS | |
| Oct 8, 1:58 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Bird City, KS | |
| Oct 8, 2:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Benkelman, NE | Estimated gust to 60 mph. Trees and branches down. |
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 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1246 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 85 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 081813 RRA SVRGLD KSC023-NEC057-081915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1211 PM MDT (111 PM CDT) WED OCT 8 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY KANSAS IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS WESTERN DUNDY COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA * UNTIL 215 PM CDT (115 PM MDT) * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED HAIGLER AROUND 1220 PM MDT 9 MILES NORTH OF SAINT FRANCIS AROUND 135 PM CDT PARKS AROUND 1245 PM MDT BENKELMAN AROUND 110 PM MDT * AT 109 PM CDT (1209 PM MDT)...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WRAY OR 3 MILES WEST OF HAIGLER MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. TORNADOES HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO OCCUR WITHOUT WARNING DURING SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BE READY TO MOVE QUICKLY TO A SMALL ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSvINESS SHOULD A TORNADO BE HEARD OR SIGHTED. MARTELLO
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 Oct 8, 11:57 AM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 8, 11:57 AM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1057 AM MDT (1157 AM CDT) WED OCT 8 1997 PRE-FRONTAL TROF INITIALLY SCOURING LOW LVLS OUT FROM EAST TO WEST WITH BOUNDARY MOVING INTO INTO ERN COUNTIES OF CWA. GOOD CYCLONICALLY CURVED JET ENTERING INTO AREA WITH AREAS NW OF A ITR/ GLD/MCK LINE BEING IN LEFT QUAD. ALSO...NEG TILTED MID LVL S/W HANGING BACK OVER N CNTRL COLORADO TO SHEAR NEWD TODAY. WITH LOW LVLS SCOURED OUT...EXPECT HIGH-BASED CONVECTION IN COLORADO TO INCREASE AS THE DAY WEARS. FEEL WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERN WITH ANY STRONGER T-STORMS WITH INVERTED-V ENVIROMENT BECOMING EVIDENT OVER THE AREA. FCST UPDATED ACCORDINGLY FOR PCPN. AS FOR WINDS...COLD FRONT SWINGING INTO NRN COLORADO AS THE MOMENT. ALL AREAS TO BE SWLY IN THE 20 TO 30 KT RANGE WITH SOME GUSTS TO 40 MPH POSSIBLE AS GOOD MIXING BEHIND PRE-FRONTAL TROF OCCURS. GRADUAL WWD SHIFT WILL OCCUR AS PAC FRONT MAKES ITS WAY THROUGH. MARTELLO
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 8, 11:00 AM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-090600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1000 AM MDT (1100 AM CDT) WED OCT 8 1997 SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED SOUTH AND EAST OF A MCCOOK NEBRASKA TO CHEYENNE WELLS LINE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY TONIGHT. SYNOPSIS... A SPRINGLIKE WEATHER SYSTEM WILL BRING A SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST ORIENTED LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE TRI-STATE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. DRY AIR AT MID LEVELS COMBINED WITH A STRONG JET STREAM CURVING OVER NORTHWEST KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON...PLUS A DRY LINE AT THE SURFACE WILL PROVIDE ENOUGH LIFT TO SUPPORT A LINE OF HIGH-BASED THUNDERSTORMS. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. HAIL OF DIME SIZE TO QUARTER SIZE IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THE LINE OF STORMS IS EXPECTED TO MOVE EAST AT AROUND 20 MPH INITIALLY...AND THEN PICK UP SPEED AFTER 2 PM CDT (1 PM MDT). INDIVIDUAL STORMS ALONG THE LINE ARE LIKELY TO MOVE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH...AND POSSIBLY FASTER THAN THAT BY LATE AFTERNOON. AFTER THE STORMS MOVE THROUGH CONDITIONS WILL STABILIZE QUICKLY AND END THE THREAT FOR FURTHER SEVERE WEATHER. && THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES CHEYENNE CO CHEYENNE KS DECATUR KS DUNDY NE GOVE KS GRAHAM KS GREELEY KS HITCHCOCK NE KIT CARSON CO LOGAN KS NORTON KS RAWLINS KS RED WILLOW NE SHERIDAN KS SHERMAN KS THOMAS KS WALLACE KS WICHITA KS YUMA CO ENTWISTLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 1:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 62 min |
| Oct 8, 1:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 62 min |
| Oct 8, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 66 min |
| Oct 8, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 66 min |
| Oct 8, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 46 min |
| Oct 8, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 65 min |
| Oct 8, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Sheridan | 62 min |
| Oct 8, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 62 min |
| Oct 8, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 64 min |
| Oct 8, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock | 65 min |
| Oct 8, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1997Every 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.