Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 21, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 15, 1997, 2:06 AM CDT for Jones County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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
- May 15, 1997, 2:06 AM CDT (07:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1997, 3:10 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jones County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 2:22 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Anson, TX |
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 nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 566 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2720 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSJT 150706 RRA TORSJT TXC253-150810- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 206 AM CDT THU MAY 15 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO TX HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 310 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS ...JONES COUNTY AT 203 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AT MORAN INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ANSON OR 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF TRUBY MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. ANOTHER DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR NOODLE. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... TRUBY... ANSON... HODGES... HAWLEY AND NOODLE. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT$. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. 12/8
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Mitchell, Sterling | 58 min |
| May 15, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan | 61 min |
| May 15, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Taylor | 61 min |
| May 15, 1:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling, Tom Green | 64 min |
| May 15, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan | 60 min |
| May 15, 1:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Jones | 50 min |
| May 15, 1:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke | 78 min |
| May 15, 1:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Taylor | 2 hr |
| May 15, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 67 min |
| May 15, 2:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Runnels | 63 min |
| May 15, 2:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Jones, Shackelford | 3 hr |
| May 15, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 63 min |
| May 15, 2:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 79 min |
| May 15, 3:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Taylor | 47 min |
| May 15, 4:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 2 hr |
| May 15, 4:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 65 min |
| May 15, 3:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 59 min |
| May 15, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 65 min |
| May 15, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 93 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.