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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Topeka, KS

July 1, 1997Brown County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1997, 5:45 AM CDT for Brown County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 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
Jul 1, 1997, 5:45 AM CDT (10:45 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 1997, 6:15 AM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Brown County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 92 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 1997-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2402 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 1997-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2402 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1238 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2 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 011045 RRA
SVRTOP
KSC013-011115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
545 AM CDT TUE JUL 1 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
     SOUTHERN BROWN COUNTY - NORTHEAST KANSAS

* UNTIL 615 AM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
     HORTON
     THE KICKAPOO INDIAN RESERVATION
     MERCIER

* AT 544 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF HIAWATHA...NEAR MERCIER MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30
  MILES AN HOUR.

* REPORTS
     GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL IN THE KICKAPOO INDIAN RESERVATION AT
     540 AM CDT
 
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY.  GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

WALAWENDER
&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 4:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPNemaha50 min
Jul 1, 5:15 AM CDTTornado WarningTOPBrown, Nemaha30 min
Jul 1, 5:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJackson33 min
Jul 1, 6:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJefferson57 min

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.