Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 1997, 11:39 PM CDT for Morris County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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
- Sep 8, 1997, 11:39 PM CDT (04:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 1997, 12:25 AM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morris County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:42 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, 11:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Burdick, 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, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 94 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.
000
TTAA00 KTOP 090439 RRA
SVRTOP
KSC127-090525-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1139 PM CDT MON SEP 8 1997
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
WESTERN MORRIS COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 1225 AM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
LATIMER
BURDICK
DELAVAN
DIAMOND SPRINGS
* AT 1138 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES
EAST-SOUTHEAST OF ABILENE OR JUST SOUTH OF CHAPMAN MOVING SOUTH AT
40 MPH.
* REPORTS
NUMEROUS REPORTS OF WINDS GUSTS OF 60-70 MPH AND HAIL UP TO
GOLFBALL SIZED
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!
THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED EARLIER
FOR GEARY COUNTY.
SW
&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, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay | 32 min |
| Sep 8, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris | 55 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.