Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 443
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 15, 1997, 5:45 PM CDT for 13 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 16 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1997, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1997, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
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, Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 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
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 28 min |
| Jun 15, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 53 min |
| Jun 15, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward | 49 min |
| Jun 15, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 44 min |
| Jun 15, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Gray | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman | 49 min |
| Jun 15, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney | 46 min |
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 15, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay and 41 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cotton, Jackson, Tillman | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jefferson, Love, Marshall | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bee, Bexar, DeWitt, Duval, Goliad and 13 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 1997Severe 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.