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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Topeka, KS

May 18, 1997Morris County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1997, 6:48 PM CDT for Morris County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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 18, 1997, 6:48 PM CDT (23:48 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1997, 7:50 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Topeka, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Morris County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 18, 6:51 PM CDT	Hail 1	Diamond Spgs, 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 18, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 906 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -412 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1411 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 366 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 509 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTOP 182348 RRA
SVRTOP
KSC127-190050-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
648 PM CDT SUN MAY 18 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
     MORRIS COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 750 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
     DIAMOND SPRINGS
     HELMICK
     COUNCIL GROVE

* AT 645 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES SOUTH
  OF JUNCTION CITY NEAR DIAMOND SPRINGS MOVING NORTHEASTF AT 20 MPH.

* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR
     DIAMOND SPRINGS AROUND 655 PM
     HELMICK AROUND 705 PM
     COUNCIL GROVE AROUND 715 PM
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM!  STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

SD/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 18, 2:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
204 PM CDT SUN MAY 18 1997

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

0745 PM   ~ DOVER                     KS   60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/17/97   SHAWNEE

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, 8:35 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

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.