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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Goodland, KS

July 5, 1997Wallace County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 5, 1997, 3:05 PM MDT for Wallace County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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
Jul 5, 1997, 3:05 PM MDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1997, 3:55 PM MDT
In force
50 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 21:07 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
Jul 5, 2:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 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 12:00Z on 1997-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1997-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2959 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 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 052105 RRA
TORGLD
KSC199-052155-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
305 PM MDT SAT JUL 5 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  SOUTH CENTRAL WALLACE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 355 PM MDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  RURAL RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS IN THE WARNED AREA

* AT 304 PM MDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING
  TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTH OF SHARON SPRINGS MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

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

ENTWISTLE/TURNER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 2:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton49 min
Jul 5, 2:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins47 min
Jul 5, 2:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur65 min
Jul 5, 2:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Wallace62 min
Jul 5, 2:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas62 min
Jul 5, 2:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins35 min
Jul 5, 2:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDNorton63 min
Jul 5, 2:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan66 min
Jul 5, 3:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan63 min
Jul 5, 3:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley64 min
Jul 5, 3:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas62 min
Jul 5, 3:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace33 min
Jul 5, 3:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWichita63 min
Jul 5, 3:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove62 min
Jul 5, 3:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSheridan35 min
Jul 5, 4:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas67 min
Jul 5, 4:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman46 min
Jul 5, 4:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove49 min
Jul 5, 5:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Thomas32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.