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Tornado Watch 350

May 28, 1997Curry County, Lea County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 35 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 28, 1997, 4:15 PM MDT for Curry County, Lea County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 35 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1997, 4:15 PM MDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1997, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties

Curry County, NM, Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Andrews County, TX, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 4:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea48 min
May 28, 4:28 PM MDTTornado WarningAMADeaf Smith47 min
May 28, 4:30 PM MDTTornado WarningLUBParmer50 min
May 28, 4:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines45 min
May 28, 4:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMASherman56 min
May 28, 5:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea47 min
May 28, 5:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHansford69 min
May 28, 5:08 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFAndrews47 min
May 28, 5:19 PM MDTTornado WarningLUBParmer26 min
May 28, 5:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro46 min
May 28, 5:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADallam64 min
May 28, 5:42 PM MDTTornado WarningLUBParmer33 min
May 28, 5:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAMoore, Sherman58 min
May 28, 5:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea45 min
May 28, 5:55 PM MDTTornado WarningLUBLamb45 min
May 28, 5:57 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFAndrews48 min
May 28, 6:28 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFLea47 min
May 28, 6:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea18 min
May 28, 6:37 PM MDTTornado WarningLUBLamb63 min
May 28, 6:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews32 min
May 28, 6:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAMoore64 min
May 28, 6:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHartley55 min
May 28, 6:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBParmer60 min
May 28, 7:03 PM MDTTornado WarningLUBParmer47 min
May 28, 7:09 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFGaines51 min
May 28, 7:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews65 min
May 28, 7:46 PM MDTTornado WarningLUBBailey44 min
May 28, 7:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAMoore, Potter58 min
May 28, 7:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAOldham62 min
May 28, 8:28 PM MDTTornado WarningLUBBailey62 min
May 28, 8:41 PM MDTTornado WarningLUBLamb64 min
May 28, 8:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAPotter, Randall60 min

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 162 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1997-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1997-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1311 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 6:00 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Angelina, Brazos, Cherokee, Freestone, Gregg and 20 more6 hr
May 27, 8:00 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCAransas, Atascosa, Bee, Bexar, Calhoun, DeWitt and 25 more6 hr
May 27, 9:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Kleberg and 3 more5 hr
May 28, 2:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAustin, Colorado, DeWitt, Fort Bend, Goliad, Jackson and 6 more6 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.