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Tornado Watch 351

May 28, 199710 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 28, 1997, 7:30 PM CDT for 10 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1997, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1997, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Crane County, TX, Ector County, TX, Loving County, TX, Midland County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWinkler46 min
May 28, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor50 min
May 28, 8:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Ward47 min
May 28, 9:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos62 min
May 28, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane49 min

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 90 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 884 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 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
884 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1726 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
319 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
4.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArmstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 13 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.