Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 251, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 8, 1997, 2:33 PM CDT for Decatur County, Sheridan County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 min. 2 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, 2:33 PM CDT (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 1997, 3:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Decatur County, KS, Sheridan County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 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, 2:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Oberlin, KS | Gusts to at least 60 mph blew down fences, branches, power lines, and TV antennas. |
| Oct 8, 3:03 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Tasco, KS | Spotter estimated gust to near 60 mph. |
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 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1145 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 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 Oct 8, 1:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 8, 1:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 1228 PM MDT (128 PM CDT) WED OCT 8 1997 ONGOING SEVERE WEATHER MOVING THROUGH AREA WILL PROMPT THIS EARLY... AND BRIEF... DISCUSSION. MODELS ARE SIMILAR IN THE SECOND THROUGH FOURTH PERIODS. ONLY MODIFICATION TO GUIDANCE WILL BE TO LOWER OVERNIGHT TEMPS DUE TO LIGHT WINDS AND CLEAR SKIES. WILL HAVE LIKELY POPS IN THE EAST FOR EARLY TONIGHT...AS STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO HAVE COMPLETELY MOVED THROUGH OUR EASTERN SECTIONS BY 00 UTC. .GLD...NONE ENTWISTLE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 8, 11:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 33 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, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 64 min |
| 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, 2:43 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, 12:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 33 min |
| Oct 8, 12:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 61 min |
| Oct 8, 12:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Yuma | 49 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
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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.