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Tornado Watch 766

October 25, 19978 counties in Arkansas; 22 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Oct 25, 1997, 1:30 PM CDT for 8 counties in Arkansas; 22 counties in Oklahoma; 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Oct 25, 1997, 1:30 PM CDT (18:30 UTC)
Expired: Oct 25, 1997, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 34 counties

Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Howard County, AR, Little River County, AR, Polk County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Creek County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Red River County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 25, 1:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Lamar	61 min
Oct 25, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	29 min
Oct 25, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer	27 min
Oct 25, 2:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Muskogee	39 min
Oct 25, 2:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Latimer	34 min
Oct 25, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer	38 min
Oct 25, 2:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Muskogee	35 min
Oct 25, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Lamar	31 min
Oct 25, 2:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Cherokee	28 min
Oct 25, 2:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore	47 min
Oct 25, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Sebastian	46 min
Oct 25, 3:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore	31 min
Oct 25, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford	25 min
Oct 25, 4:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Sebastian	34 min
Oct 25, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Howard	54 min

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 220 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 12 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -513 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1538 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 270 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 25, 12:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Little River, Miller	7 hr
Oct 25, 2:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 27 more	6 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.