Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1997, 8:12 PM CDT for Coffey County, Lyon County, Osage County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. 2 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
- May 7, 1997, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1997, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Coffey County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Osage County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 8:17 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Reading, KS | |
| May 7, 8:27 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Lebo, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 7, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 7, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 1465 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 785 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 298 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 9.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KTOP 080113 RRA
SVRTOP
KSC031-111-139-080200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
812 PM CDT WED MAY 7 1997
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
NORTHERN COFFEY COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
EASTERN LYON COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
SOUTHERN OSAGE COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 900 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
READING
MELVERN LAKE
LEBO
NEOSHO RAPIDS
* AT 808 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FROM EMPORIA TO 20
MILES NORTHEAST OF EMPORIA MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR
READING BY 815 PM
LEBO AND MELVERN LAKE BY 830 PM
* REPORTS
60 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED WITH THIS STORM AT ADMIRE IN
EASTERN LYON COUNTY
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!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, May 7, 4:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
438 PM CDT WED MAY 07 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0437 PM MINNEAPOLIS KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/07/97 OTTAWALocal storm report, May 7, 4:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
438 PM CDT WED MAY 07 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0437 PM4 MINNEAPOLIS KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/07/97 OTTAWASpecial weather statement, May 7, 5:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
KSZ010-072335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 531 PM CDT WED MAY 7 1997 ...LARGE HAIL NEAR FRANKFORT... AT 529 PM A SPOTTER IN FRANKFORT REPORTED ONE INCH HAIL OCCURRING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING COUNTIES FOR SOUTHEAST MARSHALL COUNTY UNTIL 550 PM CDT. FRANTZ
Special weather statement, May 7, 5:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
KSZ010-072335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 531 PM CDT WED MAY 7 1997 ...LARGE HAIL NEAR FRANKFORT... AT 529 PM A SPOTTER IN FRANKFORT REPORTED ONE INCH HAIL OCCURRING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING COUNTIES FOR SOUTHEAST MARSHALL COUNTY UNTIL 550 PM CDT. FRANTZ
Special weather statement, May 7, 7:26 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
KSZ011-012-021>024-035-036-080130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 726 PM CDT WED MAY 7 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT EARLIER THIS EVENING HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTHEASTWARD OUT OF THE AREA WITH THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER NOW OVER. SKIES WILL GRADUALLY BECOME PARTLY CLOUDY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE REGION. BARLOW
Special weather statement, May 7, 7:27 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
KSZ011-012-021>024-035-036-080130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 726 PM CDT WED MAY 7 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT EARLIER THIS EVENING HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTHEASTWARD OUT OF THE AREA WITH THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER NOW OVER. SKIES WILL GRADUALLY BECOME PARTLY CLOUDY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE REGION. BARLOW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Morris | 30 min |
| May 7, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon | 44 min |
| May 7, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey | 42 min |
| May 7, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 33 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.