Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1997, 8:50 PM CDT for Jackson County, Nemaha County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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
- Jul 13, 1997, 8:50 PM CDT (01:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1997, 9:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jackson County, KS, Nemaha County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 9:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Holton, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 5325 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1151 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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
Local storm report, Jul 13, 7:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
703 PM CDT SUN JUL 13 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0655 PM CLAY CENTER KS .75 INCH HAIL
07/13/97 CLAY
0655 PM CLAY CENTER KS 1 INCH HAIL
07/13/97 CLAY QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY POLICE.
0655 PM CLAY CENTER KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/13/97 CLAYLocal storm report, Jul 13, 8:25 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
825 PM CDT SUN JUL 13 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0655 PM CLAY CENTER KS .75 INCH HAIL
07/13/97 CLAY
0655 PM CLAY CENTER KS 1 INCH HAIL
07/13/97 CLAY QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY POLICE.
0655 PM CLAY CENTER KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/13/97 CLAY
0707 PM 1 E BREMEN KS .75 INCH HAIL
07/13/97 MARSHALL
0739 PM 3 S MARYSVILLE KS 1 INCH HAIL
07/13/97 MARSHALL
0759 PM WATERVILLE KS 1 INCH HAIL
07/13/97 MARSHALL
0759 PM BLUE RAPIDS KS 1 INCH HAIL
07/13/97 MARSHALL
0810 PM CHAPMAN KS .75 INCH HAIL
07/13/97 DICKINSON
0815 PM 5 NW JUNCTION CITY KS TORNADO
07/13/97 GEARYLocal storm report, Jul 13, 8:26 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
825 PM CDT SUN JUL 13 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0655 PM CLAY CENTER KS .75 INCH HAIL
07/13/97 CLAY
0655 PM CLAY CENTER KS 1 INCH HAIL
07/13/97 CLAY QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY POLICE.
0655 PM CLAY CENTER KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/13/97 CLAY
0707 PM 1 E BREMEN KS .75 INCH HAIL
07/13/97 MARSHALL
0739 PM 3 S MARYSVILLE KS 1 INCH HAIL
07/13/97 MARSHALL
0759 PM WATERVILLE KS 1 INCH HAIL
07/13/97 MARSHALL
0759 PM BLUE RAPIDS KS 1 INCH HAIL
07/13/97 MARSHALL
0810 PM CHAPMAN KS .75 INCH HAIL
07/13/97 DICKINSON
0815 PM 5 NW JUNCTION CITY KS TORNADO
07/13/97 GEARYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Geary, Riley | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 60 min |
| Jul 13, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Riley | 64 min |
| Jul 13, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Geary | 32 min |
| Jul 13, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 49 min |
| Jul 13, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 34 min |
| Jul 13, 9:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Morris | 48 min |
| Jul 13, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Shawnee | 48 min |
| Jul 13, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas | 64 min |
| Jul 13, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 60 min |
| Jul 13, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Franklin | 30 min |
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.