Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 539
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 29, 1997, 5:00 PM CDT for Beckham County, Greer County, Harmon County, Oklahoma; 28 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1997, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1997, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Beckham County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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 29, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 47 min |
| Jun 29, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Swisher | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 66 min |
| Jun 29, 6:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 3 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Motley | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer, Harmon, Jackson | 47 min |
| Jun 29, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 47 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 561 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -258 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2385 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 29, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Garfield and 22 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 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.