Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 1997, 1:30 AM CST for Republic County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 1997, 1:30 AM CST (07:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 1997, 2:00 AM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Republic County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:33 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 1:35 AM CST | Hail 0.75 | Belleville, KS |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 2211 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
724 WUUS1 KTOP 090730 RRA SVRTOP KSC157-090800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 130 AM CST SUN MAR 9 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR: REPUBLIC COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 200 AM CST * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED: SCANDIA BELLEVILLE AGENDA CUBA * AT 128 AM CST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BELLEVILLE...OR JUST SOUTH OF COURTLAND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE STORM WILL BE NEAR: CUBA AROUND 155 AM THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS SW
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 8, 9:12 PM CST, 4 hours 18 minutes before
KSZ008-009-020>022-034>036-090500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 912 PM CST SAT MAR 8 1997 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 99 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PART OF KANSAS. THE WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... ...NORTH CENTRAL... CLAY CLOUD OTTAWA REPUBLIC WASHINGTON ...NORTHEAST... MARSHALL RILEY ...CENTRAL... DICKINSON ...EAST CENTRAL... GEARY THE FOLLOWING CITIES ARE NO LONGER INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH... ABILENE CLAY CENTER CONCORDIA JUNCTION CITY MANHATTAN MARYSVILLE WALAWENDER
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.