Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1997, 11:41 PM CDT for Callahan County, Coleman County, Runnels County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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
- Jun 12, 1997, 11:41 PM CDT (04:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1997, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Callahan County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Runnels County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 3593 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1254 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 10.4
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
NWS San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 12, 8:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 8:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 849 PM CDT THU JUN 12 1997 BUSY NIGHT AROUND HERE AS STORM MOVING THROUGH SAN ANGELO SHOWED CLEAR ANTICYCLONIC ROTATION...BOTH VISUALLY AND ON KSJT. ANOTHER LINE OF STORMS MOVING INTO CROCKETT COUNTY CONTINUES TO INCREASE AS IT MOVES INTO THE NORTHERN EDWARDS PLATEAU. WITH THE 21Z RUC ONCE AGAIN FORECASTING A LOW LEVEL JET TO INCREASE TO 40 TO 45 KNOTS ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...EXPECT THE STORMS TO CONTINUE MOVING EASTWARD ACROSS THE AREA. THEREFORE...FAVOR BUMPING PRECIPITATION CHANCES UP ACROSS THE AREA...WITH BEST CHANCES ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS WHERE STORMS ARE IMMINENT. OTHERWISE...REMAINDER OF FORECAST BASICALLY IN GOOD SHAPE. OTHER THAN TWEAKS TO PRECIPITATION...NO OTHER CHANGES SUGGESTED. PMCCULLOUGH
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 62 min |
| Jun 12, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 91 min |
| Jun 12, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Sterling, Tom Green | 66 min |
| Jun 12, 9:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke, Tom Green | 65 min |
| Jun 12, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 44 min |
| Jun 12, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 65 min |
| Jun 12, 10:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Nolan | 62 min |
| Jun 12, 10:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Taylor | 58 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.