Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches in 1997
Tornado Watch 354
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 29, 1997, 6:30 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kansas; 12 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 1997, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1997, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Barber County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Harper County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woods | 65 min |
| May 29, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper | 65 min |
| May 29, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis | 36 min |
| May 29, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woodward | 45 min |
| May 29, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Ellis, Woodward | 25 min |
| May 29, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Woodward | 33 min |
| May 29, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis | 44 min |
| May 29, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Dewey, Ellis | 45 min |
| May 29, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woodward | 50 min |
| May 29, 9:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Custer, Dewey | 47 min |
| May 29, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis | 29 min |
| May 29, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Roger Mills | 30 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 877 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 8 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 1997Tornado Watches in Kansas, 1997Every tornado 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.