Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 49, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1997, 10:37 PM CDT for Brown County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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, 10:37 PM CDT (03:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1997, 11:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brown County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 10:59 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Brownwood, TX | Large tree branches were blown down in Brownwood. |
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, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 4114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1095 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 7.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
662 WFUS1 KSJT 150338 RRA TORSJT TXC049-150440- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1037 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO TX HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1140 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS ...BROWN COUNTY AT 1037 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AT SAN ANGELO INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 18 MILES NORTH OF BROWNWOOD OR 6 MILES WEST OF MAY MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE FOLLOWING LOCATION IS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO... MAY. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE... SEEK SAFETY IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT... SEEK REFUGE IN A CULVERT... DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. 15
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, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Menard | 65 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 |
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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.