Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1997, 7:26 PM CDT for Marshall County, Kansas. It was in force for 14 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
- May 16, 1997, 7:26 PM CDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1997, 7:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marshall County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Lillis, 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 16, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 16, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 515 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1946 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 382 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KTOP 170026 RRA
SVRTOP
KSC117-170040-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
726 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1997
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN MARSHALL COUNTY - NORTHEAST KANSAS
* UNTIL 740 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
LILLIS
* AT 724 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF MARYSVILLE...OR NEAR LILLIS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20
MPH.
* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR
LILLS AROUND 725 PM
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! STAY INDOORS 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 16, 6:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KANSAS
614 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0558 PM 6 N BENNINGTON KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/16/97 OTTAWALocal storm report, May 16, 6:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KANSAS
614 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0558 PM 6 N BENNINGTON KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/16/97 OTTAWALocal storm report, May 16, 6:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KANSAS
617 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0616 PM 2 W BLUE RAPIDS KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/16/97 MARSHALLLocal storm report, May 16, 6:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KANSAS
617 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0616 PM 2 W BLUE RAPIDS KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/16/97 MARSHALLLocal storm report, May 16, 6:34 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
634 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0634 PM 6 S BLUE RAPIDS KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/16/97 MARSHALLLocal storm report, May 16, 6:36 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
634 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0634 PM( 6 S BLUE RAPIDS KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/16/97 MARSHALLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 47 min |
| May 16, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Riley, Wabaunsee | 46 min |
| May 16, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie | 62 min |
| May 16, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Wabaunsee | 63 min |
| May 16, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Nemaha | 61 min |
| May 16, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Brown, Jackson | 34 min |
| May 16, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 39 min |
| May 17, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 48 min |
| May 17, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 47 min |
| May 17, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 33 min |
| May 17, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Morris | 61 min |
| May 17, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Riley, Wabaunsee | 60 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.