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Tornado Watch 412

June 12, 199712 counties in Oklahoma; 25 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 12, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT for 12 counties in Oklahoma; 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1997, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties

Beckham County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Tillman 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, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 7:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHutchinson, Moore56 min
Jun 12, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAWheeler60 min
Jun 12, 7:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBaylor46 min
Jun 12, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis47 min
Jun 12, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAWheeler59 min
Jun 12, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARoberts31 min
Jun 12, 9:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningAMAWheeler4 hr
Jun 12, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHemphill, Wheeler62 min
Jun 12, 9:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis, Harper55 min
Jun 12, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham, Roger Mills65 min
Jun 12, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCuster, Dewey40 min
Jun 12, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNRoger Mills45 min
Jun 12, 10:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMajor, Woodward52 min
Jun 12, 10:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham, Custer, Washita64 min
Jun 12, 11:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMajor48 min
Jun 12, 11:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Kiowa, Washita43 min

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 134 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 00:00Z on 1997-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 482 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
482 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3057 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beaver, Grant, Harper, Kay, Woods and 1 more4 hr
Jun 12, 10:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche and 17 more6 hr
Jun 13, 1:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 23 more5 hr
Jun 13, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Jefferson, Johnston and 4 more6 hr
Jun 13, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Angelina, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Bosque and 44 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.