Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 1997, 8:35 PM CDT for Thomas County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 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 25, 1997, 8:35 PM CDT (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1997, 9:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Thomas County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:38 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 25, 8:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 | Colby Muni Arpt, 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 25, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 179 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 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 260135 RRA TORGLD KSC193-260240- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 735 PM MDT (835 PM CDT) WED JUN 25 1997 * TORNADO WARNING FOR THOMAS COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 940 PM CDT (840 PM MDT) * AT 829 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEVANT. THE STORM PRODUCING IT WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR LEVANT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP QUICKLY AS THE STRONGEST WINDS MOVE INTO YOUR AREA. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! A TORNADO HAS BEEN SIGHTED! GO TO THE BASEMENT! IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! ENTWISTLE &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 60 min |
| Jun 25, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 66 min |
| Jun 25, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 65 min |
| Jun 25, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 33 min |
| Jun 25, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 67 min |
| Jun 25, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 62 min |
| Jun 25, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 49 min |
| Jun 25, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 62 min |
| Jun 25, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 62 min |
| Jun 25, 9:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Wallace | 35 min |
| Jun 25, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 36 min |
| Jun 25, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 10:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Greeley | 34 min |
| Jun 25, 11:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GLD | Greeley | 3 hr |
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.