Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1997, 5:17 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 min. 5 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 17, 1997, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1997, 6:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dickinson County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 5:36 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Carlton, KS | |
| May 17, 5:41 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Elmo, KS | |
| May 17, 5:52 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Navarre, KS | |
| May 17, 5:52 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Navarre, KS | |
| May 17, 6:10 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Carlton, 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 17, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -414 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1336 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 17, 12:17 PM CDT, 5 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KANSAS
1217 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0415 PM 2 S GLASCO KS 1.50 INCH HAIL
05/16/97 CLOUD
0643 PM SUMMERFIELD KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/16/97 MARSHALL
0730 PM MANHATTAN KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/16/97 RILEY
WBLocal storm report, May 17, 12:18 PM CDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KANSAS
1217 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0415 PM 2 S GLASCO KS 1.50 INCH HAIL
05/16/97 CLOUD
0643 PM SUMMERFIELD KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/16/97 MARSHALL
0730 PM MANHATTAN KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/16/97 RILEY
WBThe 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, 7:47 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, 5:18 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 |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.