Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1997, 11:35 PM CDT for Cloud County, Kansas. It was in force for 50 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
- Jun 24, 1997, 11:35 PM CDT (04:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1997, 12:25 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cloud County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:34 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 2814 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1246 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WUUS1 KTOP 250434 RRA
SVRTOP
KSC029-250525-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1135 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 1997
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
EASTERN CLOUD COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 1225 AM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
CONCORDIA
HOLLIS
* AT 1133 PM CDT A TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
CONCORDIA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* REPORTS
62 MPH WINDS AT THE CONCORDIA AIRPORT AT 1133 PM
DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND
STAY 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, Jun 24, 10:57 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1058 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1050 PM MARYSVILLE KS .75 INCH HAIL
06/24/97 MARSHALL
1050 PM MARYSVILLE KS 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/24/97 MARSHALL
1050 PM MARYSVILLE KS FLOODING
06/24/97 MARSHALL FLASH FLOODING REPORTED IN
THE TOWN OF MARYSVILLE
WITH SEVERAL STREETS AND
" ROADS UNDER WATERLocal storm report, Jun 24, 10:58 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1058 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1050 PM MARYSVILLE KS .75 INCH HAIL
06/24/97 MARSHALL
1050 PM MARYSVILLE KS 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/24/97 MARSHALL
1050 PM MARYSVILLE KS FLOODING
06/24/97 MARSHALL FLASH FLOODING REPORTED IN
THE TOWN OF MARYSVILLE
WITH SEVERAL STREETS AND
ROADS UNDER WATERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 60 min |
| Jun 24, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 60 min |
| Jun 24, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 10:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Marshall | 4 hr |
| Jun 24, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Washington | 51 min |
| Jun 24, 11:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Washington | 3 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.