Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Goodland, KS
NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 1997, 4:53 PM CDT for Sheridan County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. 5 reports 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 24, 1997, 4:53 PM CDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1997, 5:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Goodland, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sheridan County, KS
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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 24, 5:05 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Seguin, KS | |
| Jun 24, 5:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Seguin, KS | |
| Jun 24, 5:40 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Menlo, KS | |
| Jun 24, 5:42 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Hoxie, KS | |
| Jun 24, 5:48 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Hoxie, 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 24, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 1173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -340 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 950 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 364 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 406 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 242153 RRA TORGLD KSC179-242240- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 353 PM MDT (453 PM CDT) TUE JUN 24 1997 * TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS * UNTIL 540 PM CDT (440 PM MDT) * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOXIE AROUND 530 PM CDT * AT 451 PM CDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF HOXIE OR 1 MILE SOUTH OF SEGUIN MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! DH/KL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 45 min |
| Jun 24, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Norton | 64 min |
| Jun 24, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur | 34 min |
| Jun 24, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 32 min |
| Jun 24, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 64 min |
| Jun 24, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 66 min |
| Jun 24, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley | 47 min |
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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.