Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 441
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 15, 1997, 4:15 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1997, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1997, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 62 counties
Page County, IA, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Jewell 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, Osage County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Atchison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Franklin County, NE, Gage County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Trego | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Rush | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Pawnee, Rush | 45 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1222 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone and 51 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Clayton, Delaware, Dubuque | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Benton, Cedar, Clarke and 39 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 15, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell and 7 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 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.