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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Topeka, KS

May 26, 1997Franklin County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1997, 9:55 PM CDT for Franklin County, Kansas. It was in force for 20 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 26, 1997, 9:55 PM CDT (02:55 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1997, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
20 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Franklin County, KS

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 57 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 1997-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 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 1997-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-643 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
553 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
190 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTOP 270255 RRA
SVRTOP
KSC059-270315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED FOR SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
955 PM CDT MON MAY 26 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
     SOUTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
     PRINCETON
     LANE
     RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEAST FRANKLIN COUNTY

* AT 940 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH
  OF OTTAWA NEAR PRINCETON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE STORM WILL MOVE
   ACROSS THE RURAL AREAS BETWEEN PRINCETON AND LANE BY
   AROUND 1015 PM.
 
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY.  GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

PF/SK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 10:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPAnderson, Franklin5 hr
May 26, 11:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPCoffey4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kansas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.