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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1997, 8:06 PM CDT for Franklin County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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 17, 1997, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1997, 8:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 57 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 180107 RRA
SVRTOP
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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
806 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
NORTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 850 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
POMONA
CENTROPOLIS
LE LOUP
OTTAWA
* AT 804 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES
NORTHWEST OF OTTAWA...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF POMONA MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR
POMONA AROUND 815 PM
CENTROPOLIS AROUND 825 PM
OVERBROOK AROUND 830 PM
* REPORTS
GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN OVERBROOK
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY 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 17, 7:20 PM CDT, 46 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, 7:46 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
746 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0740 PM KEENE KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/97 WABAUNSEE
0745 PM DOVER KS .88 INCH HAIL
05/17/97 SHAWNEE
0745 PM SCRANTON KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/17/97 OSAGE
0746 PM CARBONDALE KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/17/97 OSAGELocal storm report, May 17, 7:49 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
746 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0740 PM KEENE KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/97 WABAUNSEE
0745 PM DOVER KS .88 INCH HAIL
05/17/97 SHAWNEE
0745 PM SCRANTON , KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/17/97 OSAGE
0746 PM CARBONDALE KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/17/97 OSAGELocal storm report, May 17, 7:51 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
751 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0750 PM 1 S CARBONDALE KS 60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/17/97 OSAGELocal storm report, May 17, 7:53 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
753 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0752 PM OVERBROOK KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/97 OSAGELocal storm report, May 17, 7:55 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
753 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0752 PMj OVERBROOK KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/97 OSAGEThe 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, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 61 min |
| May 17, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Osage | 62 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 |
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.