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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 436

June 14, 1997Jefferson County, Love County, Marshall County, Oklahoma; 41 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 14, 1997, 9:45 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Love County, Marshall County, Oklahoma; 41 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 1997, 9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1997, 4:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties

Jefferson County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Archer County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comal County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Real County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 10:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTCallahan2 hr
Jun 14, 10:37 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTBrown63 min
Jun 14, 10:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher, Clay37 min
Jun 14, 11:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXMaverick, Real, Uvalde116 min
Jun 14, 11:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXKerr116 min
Jun 15, 12:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant64 min
Jun 15, 1:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Johnson56 min
Jun 15, 2:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera, Bexar66 min
Jun 15, 2:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKendall61 min

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 220 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4114 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 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
4114 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1095 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.2
Supercell composite
7.0

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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 14, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCotton, Jackson, Tillman6 hr
Jun 15, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeaver, Texas5 hr
Jun 15, 3:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtascosa, Bee, Bexar, DeWitt, Duval, Goliad and 13 more5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 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.