Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 23, 1997, 5:25 AM CDT for Jones County, Taylor County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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
- Oct 23, 1997, 5:25 AM CDT (10:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 23, 1997, 6:25 AM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jones County, TX, Taylor County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:25 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 998 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Oct 23, 2:37 AM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 23, 2:37 AM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED LAST LINE 1ST PRGPH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 237 AM CDT THU OCT 23 1997 MAIN ITEM OF CONCERN IN THE NEAR TERM IS A VIGOROUS SHORTWAVE TROF THAT WILL MOVE FROM WESTERN NEW MEXICO TO NORTH CENTRAL TX BY THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FEATURE WILL LIKELY AFFECT THE NORTHERN CWA GIVEN PRESENT RADAR TRENDS. THE MODELS HAVE TRENDED THE TRACK OF THE SHORTWAVE SLIGHTLY NORTH WITH SUCCESSIVE RUNS. AT THIS TIME...COMBO OF FAN/FWC POPS LOOKS BEST FOR THE NORTHERN CWA. NGM POPS NOT FAR OFF FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AREAS...FINAL POPS SHOULD BE ADJUSTED TO RADAR TRENDS THROUGH 0930Z. BROAD 850 MB TROF WILL MOVE TO THE CENTRAL CWA BY 18Z...WITH DOWNSLOPE AND DRYING OCCURING OVER THE WEST. DECREASING AFTERNOON POPS/PARTIAL CLEARING FROM PREVIOUS FORECAST LOOKS ON TARGET FOR ALL BUT THE FAR EASTERN COUNTIES. NEARLY UNIDIRECTIONAL WEST FLOW AND SUBSIDENCE INTO FRIDAY SHOULD ALLOW GOOD MOMENTUM TRANSPORT TO THE SURFACE. FWC WINDS/TEMPS APPEAR REASONABLE. FAN GUIDANCE SHOWS ITS COOL BIAS IN THE DOWNSLOPE CONDITIONS. ABI 075/058 6- SJT 079/057 30 JCT 080/054 2- 14
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 4:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Mitchell, Nolan | 49 min |
| Oct 23, 5:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher | 32 min |
| Oct 23, 5:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 32 min |
| Oct 23, 9:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 50 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.