Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 1997, 10:38 PM CDT for Clay County, Kansas. It was in force for 32 min. 4 reports 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
- Sep 8, 1997, 10:38 PM CDT (03:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1997, 11:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 10:40 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Clay Center, KS | |
| Sep 8, 10:42 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 69 | Clay Center, KS | |
| Sep 8, 10:42 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Clay Center, KS | |
| Sep 8, 10:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Wakefield, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 2048 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1680 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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SVRTOP
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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1038 PM CDT MON SEP 8 1997
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
SOUTHERN CLAY COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 1110 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
LADYSMITH
WAKEFIELD
MILFORD LAKE
* AT 1037 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CLAY
CENTER MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
REPORTS OF 70 MPH IN NORTHERN CLAY COUNTY NEAR CLIFTON
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
SW/BB
&The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Republic | 42 min |
| Sep 8, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 48 min |
| Sep 8, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Riley, Washington | 60 min |
| Sep 8, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris | 55 min |
| Sep 8, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 46 min |
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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.