Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1997, 8:42 PM CDT for Nemaha County, Kansas. It was in force for 48 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, 8:42 PM CDT (01:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1997, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nemaha County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 8:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Seneca, KS | |
| May 17, 9:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Seneca, 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 |
| May 17, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 93 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 180143 RRA
SVRTOP
KSC131-180230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
842 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
NEMAHA COUNTY - NORTHEAST KANSAS
* UNTIL 930 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
SENECA
CENTRALIA
ONEIDA
SABETHA
* AT 842 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES EAST
OF MARYSVILLE...OR NEAR BAILEYVILLE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR
SENECA AROUND 855 PM
ONEIDA AROUND 900 PM
SABETHA AROUND 910 PM
LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWSWhat 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, 7:53 PM CDT, 49 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, 47 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, 19 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
Local storm report, May 17, 8:38 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
838 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0836 PM MARYSVILLE KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/17/97 MARSHALLLocal storm report, May 17, 8:39 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
838 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0836 PM MARYSVILLE KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/17/97 MARSHALLLocal storm report, May 17, 8:42 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
842 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0840 PM WILLIAMSTOWN KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/97 JEFFERSON
0842 PM 4 E MARYSVILLE KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/17/97 MARSHALLThe 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, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 50 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.