Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1997, 9:30 PM CDT for Menard County, Texas. It was in force for 65 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
- Jun 14, 1997, 9:30 PM CDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1997, 10:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Menard County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 10:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Menard, TX | Large tree limbs were broken in Menard and throughout the county. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 4724 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 10.2
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 14, 8:57 PM CDT, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 8:57 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 900 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997 UNTIL 500MB LOW TO WEST OF US MOVES ELSEWHERE WE WILL HAVE A SERIES O
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Tom Green | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 76 min |
| Jun 14, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher | 77 min |
| Jun 14, 7:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Sterling | 4 hr |
| Jun 14, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke, Tom Green | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Jones | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Nolan | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 8:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Coke, Tom Green | 4 hr |
| Jun 14, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Taylor | 75 min |
| Jun 14, 8:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Jones | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 9:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 66 min |
| Jun 14, 9:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Runnels | 47 min |
| Jun 14, 9:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Nolan | 4 hr |
| Jun 14, 10:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Callahan | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 10:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Brown | 63 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.