Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 564
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 3, 1997, 9:00 PM CDT for 28 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1997, 9:00 PM CDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1997, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Adair County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:00 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.
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Ottawa | 69 min |
| Jul 3, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 32 min |
| Jul 3, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa | 53 min |
| Jul 3, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 57 min |
| Jul 3, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 32 min |
| Jul 3, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 26 min |
| Jul 3, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 22 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 2885 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair | 7 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.