Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1997, 10:05 PM CDT for Norton County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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
- Jun 15, 1997, 10:05 PM CDT (03:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1997, 10:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Norton County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 10:22 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Norton, 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 927 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 160305 RRA SVRGLD KSC137-160355- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 905 PM MDT SUN JUN 15 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN NORTON COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 1055 PM CDT (955 PM MDT) * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED HWY 283...7 MILES NORTH OF NORTON AROUND 1020 PM CDT NORTON AROUND 1035 PM CDT CALVERT AROUND 1040 PM CDT * AT 1004 PM CDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTH OF NORTON MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! STAY INDOORS 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 Jun 15, 3:21 PM CDT, 6 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 3:21 PM CDT, 6 hours 44 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 221 PM MDT (321 PM CDT) SUN JUN 15 1997 ...THUNDERSTORM CHANCES (OR WILL IT EVER RAIN IN GOODLAND) CONTINUE TO BE MAIN CONCERN... WILL CONTINUE TO LEAN ON AVN GIVEN MY PREFERENCE FOR ITS TREATMENT OF CUTOFF SOUTHWEST U.S. LOWS AND THE CONSISTENCY OF ITS RUNS. GOOD MID LEVEL INSTABILITY OVERNIGHT AS DEPICTED BY H70-H50 TEMP DIFFS AND THETA-E VERTICAL PROFILES. AHEAD OF MAIN TROUGH AXIS MOVING ACROSS EASTERN CWA PERSISTENT LINE OF SHRA WILL EVENTUALLY ERUPT INTO STRONG/SEVERE TSRA...BUT QUESTION IS WHEN. LEFT EXIT REGION OF JET STREAK SHOULD BEGIN ADDED LIFT TO SOUTHWEST END OF SHRA LINE BY 22Z AND WORK NORTHEAST ALONG LINE. BEHIND THE TROUGH MORE CONVECTION OF THE DIURNALLY DRIVEN VARIETY WILL MOVE INTO COLORADO ZONES...BUT PROBLEM WILL BE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PREFRONTAL TROUGH AHEAD OF COLD FRONT GETS CROSSED BY YET ANOTHER JET STREAK OVERNIGHT. BELIEVE RESULT WILL BE ENHANCEMENT OF ANY SURVIVING SHOWERS...POSSIBLY WITH A TSRA OR TWO SINCE INSTABILITY WILL BE SUFFICIENT TO MAINTAIN UVV ONCE AGEOSTROPHIC JET MOTIONS GETS THINGS GOING. UPSLOPE PERSISTS THROUGH REST OF PERIOD AS PIECES OF OLD SOUTHWEST U.S. LOW EJECT NORTHEAST OVER CWA. WILL KEEP POPS GOING THROUGHOUT FORECAST AS A RESULT. FWC AND FAN NUMBERS ARE SIMILAR THROUGH PERIOD 3. LEANED A LITTLE CLOSER TO FWC NUMBERS FOR TUESDAY MAX GIVEN AVN TENDENCY TO OVERDO UPSLOPE IN THE WARM SEASON. GLD 055/074/054/080 244 HLC 060/080/057/082 333 CBK 055/076/054/080 244 MCK 055/079/055/081 333 TRB 056/076/055/082 244 ITR 054/073/053/079 244 ENTWISTLE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 15, 9:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
801 PM MDT SUN JUN 15 1997
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0722 PM 8 E BURLINGTON CO .75 INCH HAIL
06/15/97 KIT CARSON
0745 PM 13 SW GOODLAND KS .75 INCH HAIL
06/15/97 SHERMAN
MENTZERLocal storm report, Jun 15, 9:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
801 PM MDT SUN JUN 15 1997
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0722 PM 8 E BURLINGTON CO .75 INCH HAIL
06/15/97 KIT CARSON
0745 PM 13 SW GOODLAND KS .75 INCH HAIL
06/15/97 SHERMAN
MENTZERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 65 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.