Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches in 1999
Tornado Watch 364
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 2, 1999, 8:45 PM CDT for 8 counties in Oklahoma; 32 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1999, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1999, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties
Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 64 min |
| Jun 2, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Harper | 43 min |
| Jun 2, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 56 min |
| Jun 2, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 50 min |
| Jun 2, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Harper, Woodward | 46 min |
| Jun 2, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Motley | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Roger Mills | 46 min |
| Jun 2, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woods, Woodward | 52 min |
| Jun 2, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 27 min |
| Jun 2, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Roger Mills | 43 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 3151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1277 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 11.6
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, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 28 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.