Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1997, 4:07 PM CDT for Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1997, 4:07 PM CDT (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1997, 5:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hitchcock County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1402 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
701 WUUS1 KGLD 182107 RRA SVRGLD NEC087-182210- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 307 PM MDT (407 PM CDT) WED JUN 18 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN HITCHCOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA * UNTIL 510 PM CDT (410 PM MDT) * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED 6 MILES NORTH OF TRENTON AROUND 430 PM CDT * AT 406 PM CDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF TRENTON OR 8 MILES NORTH OF SWANSON RESERVOIR MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. MTS/KPL
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 18, 3:11 PM CDT, 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 3:11 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 211 PM MDT (311 PM CDT) WED JUN 18 1997 ATTM...FLAT MID LVL RIDGE OVER THE AREA HELPING PRODUCE VERY WARM TEMPS. AT THE SFC...LEE TROF OVER HI PLAINS HELPING IN SOME DOWNSLOPE WARMING OVER A GOOD PORTION OF THE AREA. LOOKING AT MODEL RUNS THIS MORNING...FOUND NGM/AVN SOLUTIONS TO BE HANDLING MID LEVEL TEMPS AND PATTERNS THE BEST. BEST INITIALIZATIONS AT THE SFC WERE ALSO NOTED BY THE NGM/AVN. SO WILL GO WITH THESE MODELS AS ETA TENDS TO BE TOO FAR E AND STRONG WITH THE LEE TROF AT THIS TIME OF YEAR. MID LEVEL FLO TO BECOME ZONAL TONIGHT. THIS WILL HELP DEEPEN LEE TROF AS IT EASES EAST TONIGHT WHICH SHOULD SHIFT WINDS OVER WRN PORTIONS OF THE AREA TO A WLY DIRECTION AND HELP KEEP LOWS UP. OTHERWISE...WITH S/W APPROACHING WILL MENTION WDLY SCT T-STORMS FROM CO ZN 90 ACROSS THE NEB BORDER AREAS. ELSEWHERE...ISOLD MNTN WILL BE THE WAY TO GO EARLY...THEN BECMG MSTLY CLEAR ONCE HEATING CEASES. MID LEVEL ZONAL FLOW TO EASE NWD WITH TIME HELPING TO BRING WARM H85 AIR INTO THE REGION. WITH PLENTY OF SUN...TEMPS SHOULD SOAR. A BIT COOLER AIR ON SOUTHERN EDGE OF S/W COMING ACROSS NEB BY 3RD PD SHOULD BE ENUF TO COMBINE WITH WEAK COLD FRONT SINKING INTO SRN NEB TO TRIGGER WIDELY SCATTERED T-STORMS OVER THE AREA WITH SCATTERED T-STORMS POSSIBLE OVER THE NEB BORDER AREAS BY TOMORROW NIGHT. IT IS DIFFICULT TO SAY HOW FAR SOUTH THIS FRONT WILL MAKE IT...BUT HAVE TO AGREE WITH NCEP THAT MAIN PUSH SWD MAY RESULT FROM OUTFLO FROM MCS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP TONIGHT OVER THE DAKOTAS INTO MINN. WEAK SFC LO SHOULD FORM ALONG FRONT OVER N-CENTRAL KS BY LATE THURS NIGHT HELPING TO EASE COLD FRONT THROUGH...BUT AM LEARY WITH NO SUPPORT ALOFT TO HELP ITS SWD MOVEMENT. MID LEVEL ZONAL FLO TO DROP SOUTH MORE INTO AREA BY FRI IN RESPONSE TO S/W MOVING ACROSS NEB. THIS SHOULD HELP SUPPRESS SOME OF THE WARMER H85 TEMPS...SO LOOK FOR TEMPS TO BE AROUND 5 DEGREES COOLER FRI. FWC/FAN TEMPS AND POPS LOOK GOOD BUT WILL DROP LOWS A FEW DEGREES ALL AREAS SINCE WINDS TEND TO BE CALM ALONG ITS AXIS WHICH CAN HELP TEMPS FALL WITHOUT THE PRESENCE OF DOWNSLOPE. GLD 060/095/059/091 1-2 HLC 062/098/065/091 1-2 CBK 062/096/061/090 1-2 MCK 060/097/062/089 2-3 TRB 058/094/058/090 --2 ITR 057/094/059/090 1-2 MARTELLO
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 10:35 AM CDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-190600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 935 AM MDT (1035 AM CDT) WED JUN 18 1997 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 SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. SYNOPSIS: UPPER-LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE WILL PREVAIL OVER THE REGION TODAY. MOISTURE IN THE ATMOSPHERE IS LIMITED...SO PLENTY OF SUN CAN BE EXPECTED. LOOK FOR CONDITIONS TO BE HOT AND DRY...SO BE PRECAUTIOUS WHEN DOING OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES. MARTELLO
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 3:56 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
COZ090>092-190305- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 258 PM MDT WED JUN 18 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 472 HAS BEEN POSTED UNTIL 9 PM MDT... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN FAR EASTERN COLORADO ARE INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH... YUMA...KIT CARSON AND CHEYENNE A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS COMBINED WITH INCREASING MOISTURE WILL RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO FORM HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. DURING A TORNADO WATCH...BE READY TO MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE IF A WARNING IS ISSUED OR IF A TORNADO IS SIGHTED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO...CABLE TELEVISION...OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. KPL
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 3:58 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
COZ090>092-190305- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 258 PM MDT WED JUN 18 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 472 HAS BEEN POSTED UNTIL 9 PM MDT... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN FAR EASTERN COLORADO ARE INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH... YUMA...KIT CARSON AND CHEYENNE A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS COMBINED WITH INCREASING MOISTURE WILL RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO FORM HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. DURING A TORNADO WATCH...BE READY TO MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE IF A WARNING IS ISSUED OR IF A TORNADO IS SIGHTED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO...CABLE TELEVISION...OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. KPL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 48 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.