Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 324
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 1997, 2:00 PM CDT for 35 counties in Kansas; 13 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1997, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1997, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 48 counties
Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Buffalo County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 63 min |
| May 26, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Thomas | 64 min |
| May 26, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 62 min |
| May 26, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Scott | 35 min |
| May 26, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 32 min |
| May 26, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane | 33 min |
| May 26, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 40 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1008 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 25, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay and 31 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Johnson, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte | 4 hr |
| May 26, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 10 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 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.