Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1997, 6:04 PM CST for Harvey County, Kansas. It was in force for 56 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 24, 1997, 6:04 PM CST (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 1997, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harvey County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 6:10 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Whitewater, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 853 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1673 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KICT 250005 RRA
SVRICT
KSC079-250100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
604 PM CST MON MAR 24 1997
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
EASTERN HARVEY COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 700 PM CST
* SOME TOWNS AFFECTED
MCLAINS
ANNELLY
AREAS EAST OF I-135
* AT 603 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE
SEDGWICK-HARVEY COUNTY LINE OR 10 MILES SOUTH OF NEWTON
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.
TORNADO WATCH #103 IS ALSO IN EJFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CST. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE
OR NO ADVANCED WARNING.
MARIENThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 6:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 59 min |
| Mar 24, 7:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 61 min |
| Mar 24, 9:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson | 48 min |
| Mar 24, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Woodson | 35 min |
| Mar 24, 9:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 50 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.