Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1997, 11:39 PM CDT for Washington County, Kansas. It was in force for 51 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, 11:39 PM CDT (04:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1997, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, KS
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, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 152 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 250438 RRA
SVRTOP
KSC201-250530-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1139 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 1997
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
WASHINGTON COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 1230 AM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
HANOVER
LINN
BARNES
WASHINGTON
* AT 1138 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES WEST
OF MARYSVILLE...OR NEAR WASHINGTON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS ALSO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR
FLASH FLOODING.
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, Jun 24, 10:57 PM CDT, 42 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, 41 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, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Cloud | 50 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.