Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 168, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 1997, 6:47 PM CDT for Wilson County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 3, 1997, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 1997, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilson County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1746 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 881 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 032347 RRA SVRSAT TXC493-040045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 647 PM CDT WED SEP 3 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...WILSON COUNTY AT 6:45 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF STOCKDALE ALONG HIGHWAY 123 MOVING TO THE WEST-SOUTHWEST AT 20 MPH TOWARD SUTHERLAND SPRINGS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REACH SPEEDS OVER 60 MPH. THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES... SOMETIMES BUILDINGS. VERY LARGE HAIL CAN INJURE ANYONE CAUGHT OUTSIDE. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN ALSO OCCUR WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...FLOODING SMALL STREAMS...LOW AREAS...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 3, 5:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-041200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 500 PM CDT WED SEP 3 1997 NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED TONIGHT OR THURSDAY OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS OR THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO PERSIST TONIGHT AND THURSDAY ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH TEXAS...INCLUDING SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY. RAINFALL TOTALS WILL AVERAGE LESS THAN A QUARTER OF AN INCH WITH HIGHER AMOUNTS OVER A HALF AN INCH POSSIBLE. THE COMBINATION OF AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE AND AN APPROACHING FRONTAL BOUNDARY WITH CONTINUE THE CHANCES FOR BENEFICIAL RAIN THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS...AND LIKELY THROUGH THE WEEKEND. NEARBY HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOKS INCLUDE: FOR SOUTHWEST TEXAS...FROM MIDLAND...LBBSPSMAF FOR THE CONCHO VALLEY...FROM SAN ANGELO...LBBSPSSJT FOR NORTH TEXAS...FROM FORT WORTH...FTWSPSFTW FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS...FROM HOUSTON/GALVESTON...SATSPSHOU FOR COASTAL BEND/RIO GRANDE PLAINS...FROM CORPUS CHRISTI...SATSPSCRP. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NORMALLY WILL BE UPDATED BY MEANS OF THE ZONE FORECASTS...SHORT TERM FORECAST...WATCHES...WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK ITSELF WILL BE UPDATED ONLY IF UNEXPECTED HAZARDOUS WEATHER DEVELOPS OR IF EXPECTED HAZARDOUS WEATHER NO LONGER IS FORECAST TO DEVELOP.
Special weather statement, Sep 3, 5:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
TXZ171>173-183>194-202>209-217>225-228-041200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 500 PM CDT WED SEP 3 1997 NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED TONIGHT OR THURSDAY OVER SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS OR THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO PERSIST TONIGHT AND THURSDAY ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH TEXAS...INCLUDING SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS AND THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY. RAINFALL TOTALS WILL AVERAGE LESS THAN A QUARTER OF AN INCH WITH HIGHER AMOUNTS OVER A HALF AN INCH POSSIBLE. THE COMBINATION OF AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE AND AN APPROACHING FRONTAL BOUNDARY WITH CONTINUE THE CHANCES FOR BENEFICIAL RAIN THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS...AND LIKELY THROUGH THE WEEKEND. NEARBY HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOKS INCLUDE: FOR SOUTHWEST TEXAS...FROM MIDLAND...LBBSPSMAF FOR THE CONCHO VALLEY...FROM SAN ANGELO...LBBSPSSJT FOR NORTH TEXAS...FROM FORT WORTH...FTWSPSFTW FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS...FROM HOUSTON/GALVESTON...SATSPSHOU FOR COASTAL BEND/RIO GRANDE PLAINS...FROM CORPUS CHRISTI...SATSPSCRP. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NORMALLY WILL BE UPDATED BY MEANS OF THE ZONE FORECASTS...SHORT TERM FORECAST...WATCHES...WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES. THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK ITSELF WILL BE UPDATED ONLY IF UNEXPECTED HAZARDOUS WEATHER DEVELOPS OR IF EXPECTED HAZARDOUS WEATHER NO LONGER IS FORECAST TO DEVELOP.
Special weather statement, Sep 3, 6:10 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
TXZ188-190-040100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 607 PM CDT WED SEP 3 1997 AT 605 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHWEST BLANCO COUNTY WITH MOVEMENT TOWARD THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. HAIL IS INDICATED WITH THIS STORM. THE STORM IS FORECAST TO BE IN THE STONEWALL-LBJ RANCH AREA IN GILLESPIE COUNTY BY 7 PM. OTHER STORMS NEARBY COULD AFFECT FREDERICKSBURG AND LUCKENBACH. ADDITIONAL STtATEMENTS OR BULLETINS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT...SO PLEASE STAY TUNED.
Special weather statement, Sep 3, 6:18 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
TXZ192-040015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 616 PM CDT WED SEP 3 1997 AT 607 PM...WINDS GUSTED TO 58 MPH AT ROBERT MUELLER AIRPORT IN AUSTIN. THIS WAS IN ASSOCIATION WITH A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WHICH ARE MOVING THROUGH TRAVIS COUNTY AND THE AUSTIN METROPOLITAN AREA. RESIDENTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS CAN EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN DURING THE EVENING. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR BULLETINS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT...SO PLEASE STAY TUNED.
Special weather statement, Sep 3, 6:21 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
TXZ191-192-040015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 619 PM CDT WED SEP 3 1997 AT 607 PM...WINDS GUSTED TO 58 MPH AT ROBERT MUELLER AIRPORT IN AUSTIN. THIS WAS IN ASSOCIATION WITH A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MOVED THROUGH TRAVIS COUNTY AND THE AUSTIN METROPOLITAN AREA. RESIDENTS OF CENTRAL TEXAS CAN EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN DURING THE EVENING. RESIDENTS OF HAYS COUNTY...ESPECIALLY IN THE VICINITY OF SAN MARCOS...BUDA AND KYLE MAY EXPERIENCE STRONG WINDS AS THE STORMS PASS TOWARD THE SOUTHWEST. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR BULLETINS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS WARRANT...SO PLEASE STAY TUNED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 47 min |
| Sep 3, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal, Kendall | 55 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.