Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 449
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 16, 1997, 1:00 AM CDT for 14 counties in Kansas; 17 counties in Missouri; 5 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1997, 1:00 AM CDT (06:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1997, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Newton County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Craig County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:01 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
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 1:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 53 min |
| Jun 16, 1:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 29 min |
| Jun 16, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata | 52 min |
| Jun 16, 2:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Linn | 104 min |
| Jun 16, 3:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Bourbon, Crawford | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler and 51 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 16, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Audrain, Boone, Buchanan, Caldwell and 41 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Canadian, Custer, Dewey and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Beckham, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 39 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Missouri, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.