Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1997, 8:35 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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 17, 1997, 8:35 PM CDT (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1997, 9:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 8:40 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Williamstown, 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 34 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 180136 RRA
SVRTOP
KSC087-180225-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
835 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY - NORTHEAST KANSAS
* UNTIL 925 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
PERRY
WILLIAMSTOWN
MC LOUTH
* AT 834 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES
NORTHWEST OF LAWRENCE...OR NEAR PERRY MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR
WILLIAMSTOWN AROUND 850 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, 7:46 PM CDT, 49 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, 46 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, 44 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, 42 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, 40 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 OSAGESpecial weather statement, May 17, 8:23 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
KSZ034>037-180230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS 823 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ISSUED EARLIER FOR OTTAWA... GEARY...DICKINSON AND MORRIS COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ISSUED EARLIER FOR THE ABOVE COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED AS THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EASTWARD OUT OF THE AREA WITH THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVING DIMINISHED IN THESE COUNTIES. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN LATER THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOWEVER. SW
The 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, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 44 min |
| May 17, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 63 min |
| May 17, 8:42 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.