Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1997, 12:15 AM CDT for Concho County, Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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 23, 1997, 12:15 AM CDT (05:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1997, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Concho County, TX, Tom Green County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:15 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 731 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1450 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 22, 9:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 9:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 910 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 1997 SIGNIFICANT FLOODING OCCURING OVER PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST HILL COUNTRY...SEE LATEST FLOOD WARNINGS AND STATEMENTS. ECHOES REDEVELOPING AND TRAINING OVER KIMBLE...MASON AND SAN SABA COUNTIES. WILL PLAN ON LITTLE IF ANY CHANGES TO THE LOCAL FORECASTS FOR ABILENE AND SAN ANGELO. 14
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 7:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | McCulloch, San Saba | 7 hr |
| Jun 22, 8:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Mason | 9 hr |
| Jun 22, 10:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Menard | 4 hr |
| Jun 23, 12:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 12:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Kimble | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 2:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Runnels | 3 hr |
| Jun 23, 3:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Tom Green | 49 min |
| Jun 23, 4:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 93 min |
| Jun 23, 5:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Callahan, Jones, Nolan, Taylor | 4 hr |
| Jun 23, 5:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 4 hr |
| Jun 23, 5:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Coleman, Runnels | 4 hr |
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.