Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1997, 9:20 PM CDT for Anderson County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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, 9:20 PM CDT (02:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1997, 10:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Anderson County, KS
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:20 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 9:33 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Garnett, 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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 92 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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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
920 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
ANDERSON COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 1005 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
GARNETT
SCIPIO
GREELEY
BUSH CITY
WELDA
* AT 919 PM CDT LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH OF OTTAWA...OR NEAR GARNETT MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 15 MPH.
* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR
BUSH CITY AROUND 940 PM
* REPORTS
THREE-QUARTER INCH HAIL IN GARNETT AT 919 PM
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS
DDN
&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, 8:38 PM CDT, 42 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, 41 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, 38 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 MARSHALLLocal storm report, May 17, 8:44 PM CDT, 36 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 MARSHALLLocal storm report, May 17, 8:50 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
850 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0842 PM GLOBE KS 80 MPH TSTM GUST
05/17/97 DOUGLASLocal storm report, May 17, 8:52 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
850 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0842 PM
GLOBE KS 80 MPH TSTM GUST
05/17/97 DOUGLASThe 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, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Nemaha | 48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.