Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1997, 8:01 PM CDT for Gonzales County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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
- May 27, 1997, 8:01 PM CDT (01:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1997, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gonzales County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 8:15 PM CDT | Hail 1.5 | Nixon, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 324 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
- 5979 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 887 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSAT 280101 RRA TORSAT TXC177-280200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO TX 801 PM CDT TUE MAY 27 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS ...GONZALES COUNTY AT 800 PM CDT RADAR INDICTAED A TORNADO NEAR THE GONZALES AIRPORT MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Austin/San Antonio, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kerr, Val Verde | 98 min |
| May 27, 7:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Kendall | 3 hr |
| May 27, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 56 min |
| May 27, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 97 min |
| May 27, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Medina | 68 min |
| May 27, 8:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar | 60 min |
| May 27, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 60 min |
| May 27, 8:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 2 hr |
| May 27, 8:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera | 2 hr |
| May 27, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Frio | 57 min |
| May 27, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 56 min |
| May 27, 8:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Gonzales | 3 hr |
| May 27, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | DeWitt, Lavaca | 65 min |
| May 27, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Karnes, Wilson | 65 min |
| May 27, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 69 min |
| May 27, 8:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Frio | 2 hr |
| May 27, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 85 min |
| May 27, 9:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Karnes | 3 hr |
| May 27, 9:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Fayette | 3 hr |
| May 27, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 102 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.