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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1997, 9:22 PM CDT for Anderson County, Kansas. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 1997, 9:22 PM CDT (02:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1997, 9:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Anderson County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 92 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.
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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
922 PM CDT WED MAY 7 1997
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
EASTERN ANDERSON COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 955 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
GARNETT
WELDA
BUSH CITY
SELMA
* AT 920 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES SOUTH
OF OTTAWA NEAR WELDA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR
BUSH CITY AROUND 940 PM
SELMA AROUND 940 PM
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE
TORNADOES.
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND pSTAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!
SD/BWWhat 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, 4:39 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 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, 3 hours 51 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, 3 hours 50 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, 1 hour 56 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, 1 hour 55 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, 8:43 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
KSZ026-037>039-080245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 843 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, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 48 min |
| May 7, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey | 42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.