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Tornado Watch 408

May 24, 1998Cotton County, Oklahoma; 27 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 24, 1998, 5:15 PM CDT for Cotton County, Oklahoma; 27 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 1998, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1998, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties

Cotton County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Borden County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Young County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKnox47 min
May 24, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKing, Stonewall60 min
May 24, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNFoard, Hardeman37 min
May 24, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKnox44 min
May 24, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBStonewall47 min
May 24, 6:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNKnox2 hr
May 24, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHardeman45 min
May 24, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKnox43 min
May 24, 7:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell61 min
May 24, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBStonewall35 min
May 24, 7:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBaylor, Knox46 min
May 24, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell62 min
May 24, 8:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNKnox2 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 278 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 12:00Z on 1998-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1998-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2695 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.