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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 413

June 12, 199716 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 12, 1997, 9:45 PM CDT for 16 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 1997, 9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1997, 2:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties

Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Harper County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Hodgeman61 min
Jun 12, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick66 min
Jun 12, 9:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoodward40 min
Jun 12, 9:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman64 min
Jun 12, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa, Woods40 min
Jun 12, 10:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCComanche48 min
Jun 12, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Meade50 min
Jun 12, 10:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCKiowa46 min
Jun 12, 10:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick64 min
Jun 12, 10:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMajor, Woodward52 min
Jun 12, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa45 min
Jun 12, 10:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber48 min
Jun 12, 10:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoods49 min
Jun 12, 10:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFord, Hodgeman46 min
Jun 12, 11:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarper64 min
Jun 12, 11:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Kiowa45 min
Jun 12, 11:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman, Reno64 min
Jun 12, 11:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick64 min
Jun 12, 11:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa, Garfield, Grant48 min
Jun 12, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Pratt50 min
Jun 13, 12:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSedgwick, Sumner64 min
Jun 13, 12:15 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTSedgwick3 hr
Jun 13, 12:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKay, Noble40 min
Jun 13, 12:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman, Reno64 min
Jun 13, 12:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTCowley63 min
Jun 13, 1:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Sedgwick62 min
Jun 13, 1:51 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTButler119 min

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 91 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 1997-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2412 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 1997-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -26 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
2412 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1488 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.1
Supercell composite
-0.8

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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
Jun 13, 1:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk and 6 more5 hr
Jun 12, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Harmon and 6 more6 hr
Jun 12, 10:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 17 more6 hr
Jun 13, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Jefferson, Johnston and 4 more6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 1997Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.