Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 313
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 23, 1997, 5:30 PM CDT for Fremont County, Mills County, Iowa; 33 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 1997, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1997, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Fremont County, IA, Mills County, IA, Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Washington County, KS, Cass County, NE, Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Saline County, NE, Seward County, NE, Thayer County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 45 min |
| May 23, 10:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Clay, Ottawa | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 536 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, 1997Every severe thunderstorm watch in 1997
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.