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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Goodland, KS

June 24, 1997Sheridan County, Kansas

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 1997, 5:43 PM CDT for Sheridan County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min. 2 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, 5:43 PM CDT (22:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 1997, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 32 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 22:45 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, 5:48 PM CDT	Hail 1.25	Hoxie, KS
Jun 24, 6:00 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	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, 10.7 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

137 
WFUS1 KGLD 242242 RRA
TORGLD
KSC179-242315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
443 PM MDT (543 PM CDT) TUE JUN 24 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  WESTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KANSAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT (515 PM MDT)
 
* TAKE COVER IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO.

* AT 542 PM CDT...GOODLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 14
  MILES NORTHWEST OF HOXIE OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF SEGUIN MOVING WEST
  AT 10 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, 4:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Sheridan	47 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, 5:56 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.