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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Topeka, KS

May 16, 1997Wabaunsee County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1997, 7:47 PM CDT for Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 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 16, 1997, 7:47 PM CDT (00:47 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 1997, 8:50 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Wabaunsee County, KS

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, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 49 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

914 
WUUS1 KTOP 170048 RRA
SVRTOP
KSC197-170150-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
747 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
     WABAUNSEE COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 850 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
     NEWBURY
     PAXICO
     MC FARLAND
     ALMA

* AT 745 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES EAST
  OF MANHATTAN...OR NEAR WAMEGO MOVING SOUTHEAST 25 MPH.

* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR
     NEWBURY...PAXICO...MC FARLAND...AND ALMA BETWEEN 800 AND 815

* REPORTS
     NUMEROUS REPORTS OF DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL
 
LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY.  GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS

DDN

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, 6:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 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   MARSHALL

Local storm report, May 16, 6:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 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   MARSHALL

Local storm report, May 16, 6:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 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   MARSHALL

Local storm report, May 16, 6:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 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   MARSHALL

Local storm report, May 16, 7:37 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
737 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0735 PM    LILLIS                    KS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/16/97   MARSHALL

Local storm report, May 16, 7:38 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
737 PM CDT FRI MAY 16 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0735 PM    LILLIS                    KS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/16/97   MARSHALL

The 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, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall	14 min
May 16, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie	62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.