Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 23, 1997, 2:51 PM CST for DeWitt County, Texas. It was in force for 39 min. 3 reports 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
- Dec 23, 1997, 2:51 PM CST (20:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 23, 1997, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County DeWitt County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 3:15 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Cuero, TX | |
| Dec 23, 3:20 PM CST | Hail 1 | Cuero, TX | |
| Dec 23, 3:20 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Cuero, TX |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 1707 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 486 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 232052 RRA SVRSAT TXC123-232130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 251 PM CST TUE DEC 23 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...DE WITT COUNTY AT 2:50 PM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTHWEST OF YORKTOWN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. 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
Local storm report, Dec 23, 1:54 PM CST, 57 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
151 PM CST TUE DEC 23 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0138 PM BANDERA TX 1 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 BANDERA BANDERA 3NW
0142 PM BATESVILLE TX .5 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 ZAVALA
0140 PM TARPLEY TX .75 INCH HAIL
1J2/23/97 BANDERALocal storm report, Dec 23, 2:05 PM CST, 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
205 PM CST TUE DEC 23 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0138 PM BANDERA TX 1 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 BANDERA BANDERA 3NW
0142 PM BATESVILLE TX .5 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 ZAVALA
0140 PM TARPLEY TX .75 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 BANDERA
0150 PM COMFORT TX .50 INCH HAIL
KENDALL
0155 PM CENTER POINT TX .75 INCH HAIL
KERR HAIL COVERING THE GROUNDLocal storm report, Dec 23, 2:05 PM CST, 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
205 PM CST TUE DEC 23 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0138 PM BANDERA TX 1 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 BANDERA BANDERA 3NW
0142 PM BATESVILLE TX .5 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 ZAVALA
0140 PM TARPLEY TX .75 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 BANDERA
0150 PM COMFORT TX .50 INCH HAIL
KENDALL
0155 PM CENTER POINT TX .75 INCH HAIL
KERR HAIL COVERING THE GROUNDLocal storm report, Dec 23, 2:08 PM CST, 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
205 PM CST TUE DEC 23 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0138 PM BANDERA TX 1 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 BANDERA BANDERA 3NW
0142 PM BATESVILLE TX .5 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 ZAVALA
0140 PM TARPLEY TX .75 INCH HAIL
1n2/23/97 BANDERA
0150 PM COMFORT TX .50 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 KENDALL
0155 PM CENTER POINT TX .75 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 KERR HAIL COVERING THE GROUNDLocal storm report, Dec 23, 2:13 PM CST, 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
213 PM CST TUE DEC 23 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0138 PM BANDERA TX 1 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 BANDERA BANDERA 3NW
0142 PM BATESVILLE TX .5 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 ZAVALA
0140 PM TARPLEY TX .75 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 BANDERA
0150 PM COMFORT TX .50 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 KENDALL
0155 PM CENTER POINT TX .75 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 KERR HAIL COVERING THE GROUND
0210 PM HONDO TX .50 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 MEDINA PEA TO MARBLE SIZELocal storm report, Dec 23, 2:15 PM CST, 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
213 PM CST TUE DEC 23 1997
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0138 PM BANDERA TX 1 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 BANDERA BANDERA 3NW
0142 PM BATESVILLE TX .5 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 ZAVALA
0140 PM TARPLEY TX .75 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 BANDERA
0150 PM COMFORT TX .50 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 KENDALL
0155 PM CENTER POINT TX .75 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 KERR HAIL COVERING THE GROUND
0210 PM HONDO TX .50 INCH HAIL
12/23/97 MEDINA PEA TO MARBLE SIZEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 1:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina, Zavala | 69 min |
| Dec 23, 1:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall, Kerr | 61 min |
| Dec 23, 2:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Bexar | 37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.