Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1997, 7:56 PM CDT for Shawnee County, Wabaunsee County, Kansas. It was in force for 64 min. 4 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 18, 1997, 7:56 PM CDT (00:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1997, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 8:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Topeka Forbes Fld, KS | |
| May 18, 8:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Topeka, KS | |
| May 18, 8:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Topeka, KS | |
| May 18, 8:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Topeka Billard Arpt, 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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 2665 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2061 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WUUS1 KTOP 190056 RRA
SVRTOP
KSC177-197-190200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
756 PM CDT SUN MAY 18 1997
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
SHAWNEE COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
SOUTHERN WABAUNSEE COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 900 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
TOPEKA
AUBURN
ESKRIDGE
* AT 753 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
FROM TOPEKA TO 25 MILES WEST OF TOPEKA OR JUST WEST OF
ESKRIDGE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR
TOPEKA AND ESKRIDGE BETWEEN 800 AND 845 PM
LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS
SD/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 18, 7:07 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
707 PM CDT SUN MAY 18 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0651 PM DIAMOND SPGS KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/18/97 MORRISLocal storm report, May 18, 7:09 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
707 PM CDT SUN MAY 18 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0651 PM DIAMOND SPGS KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/18/97 MORRISLocal storm report, May 18, 7:21 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
721 PM CDT SUN MAY 18 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0718 PM BERRYTON KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/18/97 SHAWNEE
0718 PM PAULINE KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/18/97 SHAWNEELocal storm report, May 18, 7:22 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
721 PM CDT SUN MAY 18 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0718 PMz BERRYTON KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/18/97 SHAWNEE
0718 PM PAULINE KS .75 INCH HAIL
05/18/97 SHAWNEELocal storm report, May 18, 7:28 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
728 PM CDT SUN MAY 18 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0725 PM 4 W COUNCIL GROVE KS .88 INCH HAIL
05/18/97 MORRIS
0726 PM PAULINE KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/18/97 SHAWNEELocal storm report, May 18, 7:29 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
728 PM CDT SUN MAY 18 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0725 PM 4 W COUNCIL GROVE KS .88 INCH HAIL
05/18/97 MORRIS
0726 PM PAULINE KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/18/97 SHAWNEEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 64 min |
| May 18, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 46 min |
| May 18, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 46 min |
| May 18, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 61 min |
| May 18, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 61 min |
| May 18, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 48 min |
| May 18, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Morris | 31 min |
| May 18, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 60 min |
| May 18, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Osage | 59 min |
| May 18, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson | 61 min |
| May 18, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 48 min |
| May 18, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 48 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.