Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 445
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 15, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT for 47 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1997, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 47 counties
Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Audrain County, MO, Boone County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clark County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Marion County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Scotland County, MO, Shelby County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Warren County, MO, Worth County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:00 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 2800 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.6
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, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Platte | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Cedar and 11 more | 5 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.