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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Topeka, KS

June 11, 1997Cloud County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1997, 10:05 PM CDT for Cloud County, Kansas. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report 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, 10:05 PM CDT (03:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1997, 11:10 PM CDT
In force
65 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 03:06 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 11, 10:35 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52Aurora, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 11, 9:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1997-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 833 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 1997-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 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
833 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1485 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KTOP 120305 RRA
TORTOP
KSC029-120410-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1005 PM CDT WED JUN 11 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
     CLOUD COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1110 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
     JAMESTOWN
     CONCORDIA
     YUMA
     AURORA

* AT 1003 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  CONCORDIA...OR 10 MILES WEST OF  JAMESTOWN MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30
  MPH.
 
GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

DDN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas31 min
Jun 11, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPJefferson47 min
Jun 11, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOttawa60 min
Jun 11, 11:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Dickinson63 min

Nearby

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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.