Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1997, 3:56 PM CDT for Lipscomb County, Ochiltree County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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 28, 1997, 3:56 PM CDT (20:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1997, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 453 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1495 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 28, 3:31 PM CDT, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 3:31 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
TEXAS/OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 330 PM CDT MON JUL 28 1997 LATEST SFC ANLYS SHOWS CDFNT FM S TCC TO VCNTY AMA INTO NRN OK. 10 DEG + DIFFERENCE ACRS BOUNDARY IN MOST PLACES WITH MOISTURE CONVERGENCE MAXIMIZED ALONG IT IN SW AND NE FA WHERE CURRENT RADAR LOOP SHOWS MOST ACTIVITY. PLAN ON CATEGORICAL POPS ALL AREAS XCPT SE WHICH IS VOID OF PRECIP ATTM. WILL PLACE HIGHEST POPS ALONG FNT FM SW TO NE. DON'T BELIEVE MODELS HANDLING FEATURE WELL TO BEGIN WITH GIVEN EACH QPF OUTPUT. WILL USE ETA/AVN IN LATER PERIODS FOR MOSTLY TEMP GUIDANCE. EXPECT FNT TO LINGER ACRS FA WITH A BIT FURTHER S PUSH IN THE ERN ZNS AS SFC HIGH BUILDS INTO PLAINS. WILL KEEP CHC POPS INTO WED AS PWS EXPECTED TO REMAIN FAIRLY HIGH AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES/FNT REMAIN AS FOCUS. E-SE UPSLOPE WILL ALSO AID NOCTURNAL FLARE-UPS IN MONSOONAL FLOW AROUND HIHG AND HELP KEEP DAYTIME TEMPS FM CLIMBING MUCH. IN EXTENDED...EXPECT WMFNT TO RETURN E ACRS AREA BY THU AS UPR HIGH CENTER MEANDERS OVER AREA. EURO MODELS HINTING AT MORE NW FLOW DEVELOPING BY SAT SO WILL INCREASE POPS THEN. TEMPS SHOULD TAKE A GRADUAL TURN UPWARD...HOWEVER EXPECT CLDS TO KEEP THEM AOB NORMALS. .AMA... TX...NONE. OK...NONE. COBB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 5:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 2 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.