Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 541
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 29, 1997, 6:00 PM CDT for 31 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1997, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1997, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Cheyenne County, KS, Clark County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Sherman | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wallace | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman | 63 min |
| Jun 29, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas | 62 min |
| Jun 29, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wallace | 60 min |
| Jun 29, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan | 66 min |
| Jun 29, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 35 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 1693 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1053 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 281 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
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 29, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 14 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 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.