Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1997, 7:34 PM CDT for Shawnee County, Kansas. It was in force for 61 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 17, 1997, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1997, 8:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Shawnee County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 7:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Dover, KS | |
| May 17, 7:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Dover, 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, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 11 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
- 647 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2220 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WUUS1 KTOP 180035 RRA
SVRTOP
KSC177-180135-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
734 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
SHAWNEE COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 835 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
TOPEKA
DOVER
AUBURN
SILVER LAKE
TECUMSEH
PAULINE
WAKARUSA
* AT 730 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES WEST
OF TOPEKA...OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF ALMA MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR
DOVER AROUND 740 PM
WEST SIDE OF TOPEKA AROUND 750 PM
SILVER LAKE AROUND 750 PM
PAULINE AROUND 800 PM
TECUMSEH AROUND 815 PM
* REPORTS
ONE INCH HAIL IN ALMA AT 720 PM
LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS
&
DDNWhat 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, 6:40 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
640 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0635 PM JUNCTION CITY KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/97 GEARYLocal storm report, May 17, 6:41 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
640 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0635 PM JUNCTION CITY KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/97 GEARYLocal storm report, May 17, 6:54 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
654 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0652 PM ALTA VISTA KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/97 WABAUNSEELocal storm report, May 17, 6:55 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
654 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0652 PM ALTA VISTA KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/97 WABAUNSEELocal storm report, May 17, 7:18 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
718 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0718 PM ALMA KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/17/97 WABAUNSEELocal storm report, May 17, 7:20 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
718 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0718 PM ALMA KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/17/97 WABAUNSEEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 47 min |
| May 17, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Osage | 62 min |
| May 17, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 44 min |
| May 17, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 63 min |
| May 17, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 50 min |
| May 17, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 48 min |
| May 17, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 45 min |
| May 17, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Morris | 35 min |
| May 17, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson | 32 min |
| May 17, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 52 min |
| May 18, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 62 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.