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Tornado Watch 525

June 25, 199712 counties in Kansas; 11 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 25, 1997, 5:00 PM CDT for 12 counties in Kansas; 11 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 1997, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 1997, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 23 counties

Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Perkins County, NE, Red Willow County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

28 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 5:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Keith, Perkins	62 min
Jun 25, 5:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	64 min
Jun 25, 6:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Perkins	63 min
Jun 25, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Hayes	62 min
Jun 25, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Lincoln	65 min
Jun 25, 6:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LBF	Frontier	63 min
Jun 25, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Dundy	63 min
Jun 25, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	60 min
Jun 25, 7:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LBF	Frontier	3 hr
Jun 25, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Frontier	64 min
Jun 25, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	66 min
Jun 25, 7:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Red Willow	64 min
Jun 25, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper	42 min
Jun 25, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sherman	65 min
Jun 25, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	63 min
Jun 25, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Thomas	63 min
Jun 25, 8:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Thomas	65 min
Jun 25, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	33 min
Jun 25, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan	67 min
Jun 25, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	64 min
Jun 25, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Wallace	62 min
Jun 25, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan	64 min
Jun 25, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur	49 min
Jun 25, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham	62 min
Jun 25, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove	62 min
Jun 25, 9:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Wallace	35 min
Jun 25, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Sheridan	36 min
Jun 25, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Norton	64 min

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 168 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 51 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 945 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 24, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Marshall, Mitchell, Osborne and 5 more	6 hr
Jun 24, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay, Dickinson and 22 more	5 hr
Jun 25, 2:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Banner, Cheyenne, Deuel, Garden, Kimball, Morrill and 1 more	6 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Kansas, 1997 Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 1997 Every tornado 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.