Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Topeka, KS
NWS Topeka, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 13, 1997, 9:11 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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
- Jul 13, 1997, 9:11 PM CDT (02:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1997, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Topeka, KS
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dickinson County, KS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Hope, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 5325 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1151 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KTOP 140211 RRA
TORTOP
KSC041-140245-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
911 PM CDT SUN JUL 13 1997
* TORNADO WARNING FOR
SOUTHEASTERN DICKINSON COUNTY - CENTRAL KANSAS
* UNTIL 945 PM CDT
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
RURAL AREAS SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF HERINGTON
* AT 909 PM CDT LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 20 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF ABILENE OR JUST SOUTH OF HOPE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20
MPH.
* REPORTS
DICKINSON COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND
2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOPE.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR
BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID
WINPDOWS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Topeka, KS issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Geary, Riley | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 60 min |
| Jul 13, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Riley | 64 min |
| Jul 13, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Geary | 32 min |
| Jul 13, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Morris | 49 min |
| Jul 13, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Nemaha | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 9:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Morris | 48 min |
| Jul 13, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Shawnee | 48 min |
| Jul 13, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jefferson | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas | 64 min |
| Jul 13, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Osage | 60 min |
| Jul 13, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Franklin | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Franklin | 30 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.