Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 452
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 16, 1997, 3:30 PM CDT for 27 counties in Kansas; 17 counties in Oklahoma; 8 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1997, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1997, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 52 counties
Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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
24 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford | 63 min |
| Jun 16, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa | 44 min |
| Jun 16, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper, Woodward | 40 min |
| Jun 16, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grant | 37 min |
| Jun 16, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 58 min |
| Jun 16, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woods | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grant | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roberts | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Major, Woods | 56 min |
| Jun 16, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ford | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 54 min |
| Jun 16, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Noble | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Noble | 40 min |
| Jun 16, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Roger Mills | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 7:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Kay | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 2022 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 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, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler and 51 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 16, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Canadian, Custer, Dewey and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Beckham, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 39 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Edwards, Kinney, Real, Terrell, Uvalde, Val Verde and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 16, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bosque, Bowie, Brown, Callahan and 61 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 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.