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Tornado Watch 311

May 22, 19974 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 22, 1997, 4:30 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 1997, 4:30 PM MDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 1997, 11:00 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties

Baca County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Logan County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Carson County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 4:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne60 min
May 22, 4:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers63 min
May 22, 4:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton35 min
May 22, 5:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton34 min
May 22, 9:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton32 min

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1997-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 1997-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
545 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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.