Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 431
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 14, 1997, 2:15 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 1997, 2:15 PM MDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1997, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 42 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 200 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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.
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Moore | 44 min |
| Jun 14, 3:16 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Moore | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Moore | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 4:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Randall | 65 min |
| Jun 14, 4:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 55 min |
| Jun 14, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson, Moore | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 4:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 5:10 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 65 min |
| Jun 14, 5:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 55 min |
| Jun 14, 5:29 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley | 57 min |
| Jun 14, 5:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 5:56 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Carson | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 6:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 45 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 797 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1163 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 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.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 3:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Cheyenne, Denver, Douglas and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 1:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Curry, Lea, Roosevelt | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 7:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Sabine | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Collin, Dallas, Denton and 29 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 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.