Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches in 1997
Tornado Watch 408
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 11, 1997, 9:15 PM CDT for 6 counties in Oklahoma; 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1997, 9:15 PM CDT (02:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1997, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Beckham County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Washita County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Motley County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 9:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 4 hr |
| Jun 11, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Haskell | 50 min |
| Jun 11, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 66 min |
| Jun 11, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Childress | 60 min |
| Jun 11, 10:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harmon | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harmon, Jackson | 45 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 875 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2722 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Craig, Delaware, Dewey, Garfield, Grant and 10 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Texas, 1997Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 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.