Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 606
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 14, 1997, 4:15 PM CDT for Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 19 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 1997, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1997, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties
Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Ochiltree | 58 min |
| Jul 14, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 63 min |
| Jul 14, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford | 54 min |
| Jul 14, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Hutchinson | 49 min |
The nearest sounding before it
W. Woodward Airport, OK (KWWR), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 1672 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1392 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 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.
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.