Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1997, 5:42 PM CDT for Jackson County, Kansas. It was in force for 63 min. 5 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
- Jun 11, 1997, 5:42 PM CDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1997, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, KS
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 6:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 62 | Mayetta, KS | |
| Jun 11, 6:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 54 | Mayetta, KS | |
| Jun 11, 6:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Mayetta, KS | |
| Jun 11, 6:25 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Mayetta, KS | |
| Jun 11, 6:48 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Denison, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 633 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KTOP 112242 RRA
TORTOP
KSC085-112345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
542 PM CDT WED JUN 11 1997
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
JACKSON COUNTY - NORTHEAST KANSAS
* UNTIL 645 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
POTAWATOMIE INDIAN RESERVATION
HOLTON
MAYETTA
* AT 540 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF
TOPEKA...OR HAVENSVILLE. MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* REPORTS
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS
STORM.
GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 64 min |
| Jun 11, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 4:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Marshall | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Nemaha, Pottawatomie | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 60 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.