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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Topeka, KS

May 17, 1997Morris County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1997, 10:23 PM CDT for Morris County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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, 10:23 PM CDT (03:23 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 1997, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Morris County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 94 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1997-05-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 647 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1997-05-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

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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, 8:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 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   MARSHALL
Local storm report, May 17, 8:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 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   DOUGLAS
Local storm report, May 17, 8:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 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   DOUGLAS
Local storm report, May 17, 9:32 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
932 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0933 PM    GARNETT                   KS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/97   ANDERSON
Local storm report, May 17, 9:35 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
932 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0933 PM@    GARNETT                   KS   .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/97   ANDERSON
Special weather statement, May 17, 10:05 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
KSZ011-012-022>024-026-038>040-054>056-058-059-180400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1005 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 1997

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 290 HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 290 ISSUED EARLIER FOR MUCH
OF THE AREA HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THUNDERSTORMS HOWEVER
CONTINUE IN ANDERSON COUNTY...BUT ARE EXPECTED TO SLOWLY
PUSH EAST OF THAT AREA BY MIDNIGHT.

MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN LATER TONIGHT.

SW

The office that day

Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 17, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOsage47 min
May 17, 7:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPShawnee61 min
May 17, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Osage62 min
May 17, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPFranklin44 min
May 17, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall63 min
May 17, 8:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJefferson50 min
May 17, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPNemaha48 min
May 17, 9:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAnderson45 min
May 17, 9:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson, Morris35 min
May 17, 10:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAnderson32 min
May 18, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMorris62 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.