Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 356

May 29, 199711 counties in Oklahoma; 16 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 29, 1997, 10:15 PM CDT for 11 counties in Oklahoma; 16 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 1997, 10:15 PM CDT (03:15 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1997, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties

Beckham County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Custer County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Young County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCuster45 min
May 30, 1:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNTillman47 min
May 30, 2:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNTillman29 min
May 30, 2:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNTillman46 min
May 30, 3:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNClay, Wichita47 min
May 30, 3:49 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNClay, Wichita3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 222 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1786 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 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
1786 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
5.4

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The text

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

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAndrews, Armstrong, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Carson and 36 more6 hr
May 30, 6:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBosque, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta and 20 more6 hr
May 30, 12:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBowie6 hr
May 30, 1:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Callahan, Coleman, Collin, Comanche and 30 more6 hr
May 30, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Coke and 24 more5 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.