Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 229

May 1, 199715 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 1, 1997, 7:15 PM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 1, 1997, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired
May 1, 1997, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Stafford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee68 min
May 1, 8:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche65 min
May 1, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche61 min

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 77 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1997-05-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 59 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1997-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 310 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
59 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-190 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1441 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
310 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
627 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.2

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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.