Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 482
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 19, 1997, 9:30 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1997, 9:30 PM CDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 1997, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties
Boone County, IA, Buena Vista County, IA, Calhoun County, IA, Carroll County, IA, Cherokee County, IA, Clay County, IA, Crawford County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Greene County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Humboldt County, IA, Ida County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Lyon County, IA, Monona County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA, Sac County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Webster County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Wright County, IA, Faribault County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Martin County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Rock County, MN, Cedar County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Knox County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Wayne County, NE, Bon Homme County, SD, Clay County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Lincoln County, SD, McCook County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Turner County, SD, Union County, SD, Yankton County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:32 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
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook, Minnehaha, Turner | 31 min |
| Jun 19, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 31 min |
| Jun 19, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Stanton, Wayne | 65 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 1320 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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 20, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 20, 4:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allamakee, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer and 53 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 20, 5:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Emmet, Lyon and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 19, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver and 35 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 20, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arthur, Banner, Box Butte, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne and 26 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 20, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Bennett, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule and 31 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.