Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Wichita, KS
NWS Wichita, KS issued this tornado warning at May 25, 1997, 5:11 PM CDT for Russell County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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
- May 25, 1997, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1997, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wichita, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Russell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1225 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 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 KICT 252211 RRA
TORICT
KSC167-252300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
511 PM CDT SUN MAY 25 1997
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
SOUTHERN RUSSELL COUNTY - CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 600 PM CDT
* SOME TOWNS AFFECTED
DUBUQUE AROUND 530 PM
* AT 510 PM RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 10 MILES EAST OF DUBUQUE...OR
20 MILES SOUTH OF RUSSELL MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
*THIS EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS TORNADO WARNING FOR RUSSELL COUNTY.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO
TO A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A
TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR RLOW SPOT.
KIRKWOODThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wichita, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 58 min |
| May 25, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton, Russell | 55 min |
| May 25, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 62 min |
| May 25, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Barton | 47 min |
| May 25, 5:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 60 min |
| May 25, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 60 min |
| May 25, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 60 min |
| May 25, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson | 63 min |
| May 25, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 60 min |
| May 25, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 58 min |
| May 25, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Reno | 59 min |
| May 25, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman | 60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.