Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1997, 8:41 PM MDT for Sherman County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 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 18, 1997, 8:41 PM MDT (02:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1997, 9:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sherman County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 2 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 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 18, 9:01 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 | Goodland, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 3:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2201 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 190241 RRA SVRGLD KSC181-190345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 841 PM MDT WED JUN 18 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SHERMAN COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 945 PM MDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RULETON AROUND 850 PM MDT THE NORTHERN SUN-ADM PLANT AROUND 900 PM MDT GOODLAND AROUND 910 PM MDT EDSON AROUND 935 PM MDT * AT 840 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF GOODLAND OR 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF RULETON MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS AND LANRGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! BARKER
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, 2:11 PM MDT, 6 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 2:11 PM MDT, 6 hours 30 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, 2:56 PM MDT, 5 hours 45 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, 2:58 PM MDT, 5 hours 43 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, 3:24 PM MDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-NEZ079>081-190300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 324 PM MDT (424 PM CDT) WED JUN 18 1997 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MOST OF NORTHWEST KANSAS AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA UNTIL 9 PM MDT (10 PM CDT)... THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... DUNDY...HITCHCOCK AND RED WILLOW AND ALSO PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST KANSAS... CHEYENNE...RAWLINS...DECATUR...NORTON...SHERMAN...THOMAS...GRAHAM... SHERIDAN...WALLACE...LOGAN AND GOVE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY DEVELOPED OVER PARTS OF THE WATCH AREA THIS AFTERNOON. A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS COMBINED WITH INCREASING MOISTURE WILL RESULT IN ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ADVANCE PLANNING DURING A WATCH IS ESSENTIAL. MAKE SURE YOUR FAMILY KNOWS WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO DO IN THE EVENT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS ISSUED. 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, 3:36 PM MDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before
COZ090>092-KSZ001>004-013>016-027>029-041-042-NEZ079>081-190600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 336 PM MDT (436 PM 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 MAY BE REQUIRED. SYNOPSIS: THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF A MID LEVEL DISTURBANCE HAS COMBINED WITH A SURFACE TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE OVER WESTERN KANSAS AND WESTERN NEBRASKA IN TRIGGERING WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE KANSAS AND NEBRASKA BORDER AREAS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG THE FRONT RANGE OF COLORADO. WIND PROFILES IN THE ATMOSPHERE ARE CONDUCIVE FOR TORNADOES IN YUMA...KIT CARSON AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES OF EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT FOR THESE COUNTIES IN EXTREME EASTERN COLORADO. ELSEWHERE...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR DUNDY...HITCHCOCK AND RED WILLOW COUNTIES OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA UNTIL 9 PM MDT (10 PM CDT). THIS THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST KANSAS: CHEYENNE...RAWLINS...DECATUR...NORTON...SHERMAN...THOMAS...SHERIDAN.. .GRAHAM...WALLACE...LOGAN AND GOVE. AREAS IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA MAY SEE THE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL IN EXCESS OF THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH ALONG WITH STRONG...GUSTY WINDS. MARTELLO
Local storm report, Jun 18, 6:18 PM MDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
618 PM MDT (718 PM CDT) WED JUN 18 1997
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0450 PM 6 NE INDIANOLA NE .75 INCH HAIL
06/18/97 RED WILLOW PUBLIC REPORTED 7 INCH
DIAMETER TREE BRANCH BROKEN
AND BLOWN 75 FEET IN
ADDITION TO 3/4 INCH HAIL.
BARKERNearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 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.