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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Wichita, KS

March 27, 1997Neosho County, Kansas

NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 1997, 9:02 PM CST for Neosho County, Kansas. It was in force for 43 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
Mar 27, 1997, 9:02 PM CST (03:02 UTC)
Expired
Mar 27, 1997, 9:45 PM CST
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Wichita, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Neosho County, KS

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:02 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 152 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, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1997-03-28Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Springfield, MO at 00:00Z on 1997-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 145 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2598 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
276 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 KICT 280304 RRA
SVRICT
KSC133-280350-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
902 PM CST THU MAR 27 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  NEOSHO COUNTY - SOUTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 945 PM CST
 
* SOME TOWNS AFFECTED
    CHANUTE
    THAYER
    GALESBURG

* AT 900 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF
  THAYER OR 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHANUTE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
  MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...BE PREPARED FOR WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER.  IF YOU ARE
CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO AN INDOOR SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.


RUNYAN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 27, 6:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSumner63 min
Mar 27, 6:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley58 min
Mar 27, 7:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChautauqua, Elk62 min
Mar 27, 7:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley33 min
Mar 27, 8:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTWilson44 min
Mar 27, 9:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick45 min
Mar 27, 9:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler56 min
Mar 27, 10:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood60 min
Mar 27, 10:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler47 min
Mar 27, 11:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTElk50 min
Mar 28, 12:52 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLabette48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.