Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 30, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT for Sumner County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 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
- Jun 29, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1997, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumner County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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 29, 7:04 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 78 | Geuda Spgs, KS | GRAIN BIN BLOWN OVER, ROOFS TORN FROM BARNS & HOUSES, TOPPLED POWER POLES & OVERTURNED CAMPERS. |
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 29, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 2722 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1288 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WFUS1 KICT 300002 RRA
TORICT
KSC191-300030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
700 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 1997
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
SOUTHERN SUMNER COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 730 PM CDT
* SOME TOWNS AFFECTED
SOUTH HAVEN
CALDWELL
ASHTON
* AT 659 PM RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR SOUTH HAVEN OR 20 MILES
WEST OF ARKANSAS CITY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A STAIRWELL OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF
NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS
A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS
TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
THIS REPLACES THE PREVIOUS TORNADO WARNING FOR SUMNER COUNTY.
RENOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Cowley | 42 min |
| Jun 29, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 62 min |
| Jun 29, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 45 min |
| Jun 29, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Wilson, Woodson | 59 min |
| Jun 29, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper | 62 min |
| Jun 29, 8:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Wilson | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 8:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Neosho | 61 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.