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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 451

June 16, 199739 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 16, 1997, 2:30 PM CDT for 39 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 16, 1997, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1997, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties

Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Moore County, TX, Motley County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAMoore59 min
Jun 16, 3:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMAMoore3 hr
Jun 16, 3:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBParmer48 min
Jun 16, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAPotter65 min
Jun 16, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith55 min
Jun 16, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACarson63 min
Jun 16, 4:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARandall56 min
Jun 16, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAPotter47 min
Jun 16, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARoberts55 min
Jun 16, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAGray64 min
Jun 16, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lamb46 min
Jun 16, 5:11 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBHale, Lubbock34 min
Jun 16, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran51 min
Jun 16, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHemphill, Lipscomb59 min
Jun 16, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACarson63 min
Jun 16, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAArmstrong65 min
Jun 16, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale63 min
Jun 16, 6:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Garza48 min
Jun 16, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens64 min
Jun 16, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent50 min
Jun 16, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress32 min
Jun 16, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBStonewall50 min
Jun 16, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing64 min
Jun 16, 7:54 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBKent, Stonewall46 min
Jun 16, 7:58 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBKing62 min

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 100 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1997-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1997-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1911 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 15, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCEdwards, Kinney, Real, Terrell, Uvalde, Val Verde and 1 more5 hr
Jun 16, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCHansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree and 2 more5 hr
Jun 16, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Fannin, Foard and 8 more6 hr
Jun 16, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Angelina, Bosque, Bowie, Brown, Callahan and 61 more6 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.