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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 314

May 24, 19975 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 24, 1997, 2:00 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 1997, 2:00 PM MDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1997, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 37 counties

Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Clark County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Quay County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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.

Warnings issued inside it

21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 2:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	33 min
May 24, 3:03 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Prowers	32 min
May 24, 3:08 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Stanton	32 min
May 24, 3:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stanton	32 min
May 24, 3:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	32 min
May 24, 4:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Moore	35 min
May 24, 4:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	32 min
May 24, 4:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Moore	61 min
May 24, 4:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Stevens	42 min
May 24, 5:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford	64 min
May 24, 5:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Potter	49 min
May 24, 5:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	34 min
May 24, 5:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	34 min
May 24, 5:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson	63 min
May 24, 5:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	50 min
May 24, 5:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Donley	61 min
May 24, 6:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney	31 min
May 24, 6:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray	68 min
May 24, 6:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	52 min
May 24, 6:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Ochiltree	62 min
May 24, 7:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford	62 min

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 224 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -193 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1069 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 2:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Curry, Roosevelt	5 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.