Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 1999, 9:34 PM CDT for Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1999, 9:34 PM CDT (02:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1999, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Texas County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Hooker, OK | Texas County Sheriff's Office and Hooker Police Department reported a brief tornado touchdown. The tornado track was estimated. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 3659 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1169 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 31 min |
| Jun 4, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham | 37 min |
| Jun 4, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 23 min |
| Jun 4, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 29 min |
| Jun 4, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 34 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.