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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS Amarillo, TX

June 15, 1997Beaver County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1997, 7:46 PM CDT for Beaver County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 44 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 15, 1997, 7:46 PM CDT (00:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1997, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Beaver County, OK

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 15, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 124 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1997-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2327 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 1997-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2327 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1501 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.4

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What 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.

NWS Amarillo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 15, 3:38 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 3:38 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 1:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADallam, Hartley60 min
Jun 16, 2:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHartley, Moore60 min
Jun 16, 2:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMASherman2 hr
Jun 16, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAMoore59 min
Jun 16, 3:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMAMoore3 hr
Jun 16, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAPotter65 min
Jun 16, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHansford63 min
Jun 16, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith55 min
Jun 16, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAOchiltree58 min
Jun 16, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACarson63 min
Jun 16, 4:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARandall56 min
Jun 16, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAPotter47 min
Jun 16, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARoberts55 min
Jun 16, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAGray64 min
Jun 16, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHemphill, Lipscomb59 min
Jun 16, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACarson63 min
Jun 16, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAArmstrong65 min
Jun 16, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas47 min
Jun 16, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver59 min
Jun 16, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oklahoma, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.