Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 124
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 29, 1997, 10:00 PM CST for 35 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 1997, 10:00 PM CST (04:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1997, 4:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Anderson County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bell County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Hays County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Houston County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Llano County, TX, Madison County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Robertson County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Smith County, TX, Travis County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Williamson County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 10:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 56 min |
| Mar 29, 10:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | San Saba | 61 min |
| Mar 29, 10:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, San Saba | 59 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 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
- 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.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 10:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Collin, Delta, Fannin and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Angelina, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Nacogdoches, Panola and 5 more | 5 hr |
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.