Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1997, 10:14 PM CST for San Saba County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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
- Mar 29, 1997, 10:14 PM CST (04:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1997, 11:15 PM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County San Saba County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:14 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 4:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 10:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 990 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1782 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 6:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 61 min |
| Mar 29, 7:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 2 hr |
| Mar 29, 9:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, McCulloch | 63 min |
| Mar 29, 10:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, San Saba | 59 min |
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.