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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Goodland, KS

June 29, 1997Gove County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1997, 4:25 AM CDT for Gove 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 29, 1997, 4:25 AM CDT (09:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1997, 5:00 AM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Goodland, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Gove County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:25 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 137 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1997-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2023 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1997-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2023 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1769 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
135 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.6

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGLD 290926 RRA
TORGLD
KSC063-291000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
325 AM MDT (425 AM CDT) SUN JUN 29 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  EASTERN GOVE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 500 AM CDT (400 AM MDT)
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOVE              AROUND 430 AM CDT

* AT 424 AM CDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING
  TORNADO 18 MILES SOUTH OF QUINTER OR 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GOVE
  MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

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

VJN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 2:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman48 min
Jun 29, 2:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace34 min
Jun 29, 3:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove61 min
Jun 29, 6:29 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDSherman61 min
Jun 29, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley, Wallace64 min
Jun 29, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace48 min

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.