Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 8, 1997, 2:43 PM CDT for Gove County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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
- Oct 8, 1997, 2:43 PM CDT (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 1997, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gove County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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, 2:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Campus, KS | Several 2 inch diameter tree branches blown 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 928 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 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 081945 RRA SVRGLD KSC063-082045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 143 PM MDT (243 PM CDT) WED OCT 8 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 345 PM CDT (245 PM MDT) * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED GRINNELL AROUND 300 PM CDT GOVE AROUND 305 PM CDT GRAINFIELD AROUND 310 PM CDT * AT 242 PM CDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF OAKLEY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! MARTELLO/MENTZER
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, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Sheridan | 62 min |
| Oct 8, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 64 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.