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Tornado Watch 362
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 2, 1999, 4:30 PM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico; Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 16 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1999, 4:30 PM MDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1999, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties
Curry County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Parmer | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 4:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 45 min |
| Jun 2, 5:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 39 min |
| Jun 2, 5:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham | 54 min |
| Jun 2, 5:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Castro | 30 min |
| Jun 2, 5:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 54 min |
| Jun 2, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 32 min |
| Jun 2, 6:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Castro | 31 min |
| Jun 2, 6:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 6:47 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Swisher | 28 min |
| Jun 2, 7:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 39 min |
| Jun 2, 7:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 29 min |
| Jun 2, 7:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 53 min |
| Jun 2, 7:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson | 64 min |
| Jun 2, 8:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 64 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 726 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -271 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 2, 3:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Choctaw, Haskell, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha and 1 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Texas, 1999Tornado Watches in New Mexico, 1999Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 1999Every tornado watch in 1999
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.