Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1997, 10:57 PM CDT for Rawlins County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 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 20, 1997, 10:57 PM CDT (03:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1997, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rawlins County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:57 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 20, 11:40 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Mc Donald, 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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 3148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGLD 210357 RRA SVRGLD KSC153-210500- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 957 PM MDT (1057 PM CDT) FRI JUN 20 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR RAWLINS COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 1200 AM CDT (1100 PM MDT) * TAKE COVER IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA. * AT 1055 PM CDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 9 MILES EAST OF BENKELMAN TO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF ST. FRANCIS. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SKIPPER/STAVISH
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 20, 2:49 PM CDT, 8 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 2:49 PM CDT, 8 hours 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 149 PM MDT (249 PM CDT) FRI JUN 20 1997 ...FORECAST CHALLENGE TO BE T-STORMS CHCS AGAIN WITH TEMPS BEING A SECONDARY CONCERN... 12Z MODEL RUNS INDICATE THAT THE ETA INITIALIZES WELL ON ALL LEVELS WITH THE AVN AGREEING WITH THE ETA ALOFT. WILL GO WITH THE ETA JUST DUE TO ITS SIMILARITY WITH THE AVN (WHICH HAS BEEN THE MODEL OF CHOICE LATELY) AND ITS EXCELLENT HANDLING OF SFC FEATURES AND OVERNIGHT LOWS. SFC BOUNDARY CONTS TO REMAIN OVER THE CENTRAL PORTIONS OF CWA FROM HLC TO TRB WITH A WEAK SFC LO LOCATED RIGHT OVR THE GLD-WLC AREA ATTM. CONVERGENCE ALONG THIS BOUNDARY SHOULD HELP BE A FOCUS FOR CNVCTN LATER THIS EVENING WITH UPSLOPE COMPONENT NOTED ALONG THE NEB BORDER. OTHER STORMS SHOULD BREAK OUT IN AREA OF DYNAMICS IN THE CYS-DEN CORRIDOR AND MOVE MAINLY ENE WITH THE MEAN FLO. SOME OF THESE HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO RIGHT TURN INTO OUR AREA AND FEEL SPCS OUTLINE IS GOOD AFTER LOOKING AT CAPE...SR HEL AND LI PROGS. FEEL MAIN THREAT MOST AREAS WILL BE STRONG...GUSTY WINDS ONCE AGAIN WITH INVERTED-V SOUNDINGS UPSTREAM AND WET BULB 0 AROUND 10KFT. SAT SHOULD BE SIMILAR TO TDY BY STARTING OUT MSTLY SUNNY WITH SUBSIDENCE BEHIND CONVECTION...HOWEVER TEMPS SHOULD BE A LEAST A CAT COOLER WITH E-NE FLO N OF SFC FRONT AND LO NEAR DDC. RESIDUAL BOUNDARIES MAY EXIST FROM TONIGHT...THUS PUTTING IN WDLY SCT MENTION NW AREAS. ANOTHER S/W PULLS OUT INTO NEB BY SAT NGT SETTING UP MORE CONVECTION AGAIN. BY SUN...MID LVL RDG BEGINS TO AMPLIFY OVER THE REGION HELPING TEMPS WARM BACK TO THE 90S WITH ISOLD T-STORMS POSSIBLE LATE IN THE DAY. LIKE FAN MOS REAL WELL AS IT HANDLES ZNL FLO TO THE N AND S/WS WELL...THUS GIVING MORE REALISTIC POPS...TEMPS AND CLOUD CVR. GLD 062/089/063/093 3-3 HLC 068/092/065/097 3-2 CBK 064/088/065/094 3-3 MCK 064/087/063/093 423 TRB 062/094/064/096 2-2 ITR 060/088/061/091 423 MARTELLO
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 10:08 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
NEZ079>081-210710-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
907 PM MDT (1007 PM CDT) FRI JUN 20 1997
...TORNADO WATCH EXPIRED...NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ISSUED...
THE TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA WAS ALLOWED TO
EXPIRE AT 10 PM MDT (11 PM CDT).
HOWEVER...A NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE SAME AREA HAS BEEN
ISSUED. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM MDT (2
AM CDT)...AND INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF FAR SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA:
DUNDY... HITCHCOCK... RED WILLOW...
INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF:
BENKELMAN... TRENTON... MCCOOK...
REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE
FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO...CABLE TELEVISION...OR
TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER
SITUATION.
STAVISHSpecial weather statement, Jun 20, 10:14 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
COZ090-210420- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 914 PM MDT FRI JUN 20 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH HAS EXPIRED... THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN YUMA COUNTY EXPIRED ON SCHEDULE AT 900 PM MDT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL LIKELY OVER THE AREA THROUGH THE NIGHT... HOWEVER CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES. AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM REMAINS POSSIBLE HOWEVER...AND YOU SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO...CABLE TELEVISION...OR TELEVISION FOR MORE INFORMATION. STAVISH
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 10:15 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
COZ090-210420- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 914 PM MDT FRI JUN 20 1997 ...TORNADO WATCH HAS EXPIRED... THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN YUMA COUNTY EXPIRED ON SCHEDULE AT 900 PM MDT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL LIKELY OVER THE AREA THROUGH THE NIGHT... HOWEVER CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES. AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM REMAINS POSSIBLE HOWEVER...AND YOU SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO...CABLE TELEVISION...OR TELEVISION FOR MORE INFORMATION. STAVISH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 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.