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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Goodland, KS

June 25, 1997Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 1997, 8:50 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 35 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 25, 1997, 8:50 PM MDT (02:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 1997, 9:25 PM MDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Wallace County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 25, 4:00 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 165 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1997-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 179 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1997-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 260250 RRA
TORGLD
KSC199-260325-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
850 PM MDT WED JUN 25 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  NORTHWESTERN WALLACE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 925 PM MDT
 
* TAKE COVER IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO.

* AT 849 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING
  TORNADO 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF SHARON SPRINGS OR 9 MILES NORTH OF
  WESKAN MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR THE REST OF WALLACE COUNTY
  CONTINUES UNTIL 905 PM MDT.

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

ENTWISTLE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 6:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne60 min
Jun 25, 6:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins66 min
Jun 25, 7:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman65 min
Jun 25, 7:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur63 min
Jun 25, 7:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas63 min
Jun 25, 7:35 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDThomas65 min
Jun 25, 7:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins33 min
Jun 25, 7:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan67 min
Jun 25, 7:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton64 min
Jun 25, 8:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace62 min
Jun 25, 8:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan64 min
Jun 25, 8:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur49 min
Jun 25, 8:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGraham62 min
Jun 25, 8:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove62 min
Jun 25, 8:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan36 min
Jun 25, 8:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton64 min
Jun 25, 9:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley63 min
Jun 25, 9:41 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley34 min
Jun 25, 10:18 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDGreeley3 hr

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 1997Every tornado warning in 1997Tornadoes 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.