Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 409
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 11, 1997, 11:00 PM CDT for 34 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1997, 11:00 PM CDT (04:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1997, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Barton County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 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
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Saline | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Russell | 46 min |
| Jun 12, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth | 64 min |
| Jun 12, 12:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Rice | 59 min |
| Jun 12, 1:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Reno | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 1:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis | 44 min |
| Jun 12, 1:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 63 min |
| Jun 12, 2:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 30 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 3005 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 991 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 8.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Osborne and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua and 19 more | 6 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.