Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 293
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 17, 1997, 10:00 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; 42 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 1997, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1997, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 55 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Camden County, MO, Carter County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, Miller County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Osage County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Shannon County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Warren County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:59 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.
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Bates | 60 min |
| May 17, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Maries, Pulaski | 35 min |
| May 17, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 32 min |
| May 17, 10:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Benton | 4 hr |
| May 17, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Linn | 47 min |
| May 17, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Crawford | 47 min |
| May 17, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Phelps | 49 min |
| May 17, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen | 62 min |
| May 17, 10:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Linn | 4 hr |
| May 17, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Pulaski | 34 min |
| May 17, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Cooper | 52 min |
| May 17, 10:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Maries, Phelps, Pulaski | 5 hr |
| May 17, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 66 min |
| May 17, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | St. Clair, Vernon | 66 min |
| May 17, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Hickory | 45 min |
| May 18, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Franklin | 45 min |
| May 18, 2:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Miller | 89 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1784 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Coffey, Doniphan and 14 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Bourbon, Brown and 39 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
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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.