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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 22

January 23, 199745 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 23, 1997, 2:45 PM CST for 45 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jan 23, 1997, 2:45 PM CST (20:45 UTC)
Expired
Jan 23, 1997, 9:00 PM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties

Anderson County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bell County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Hays County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Houston County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lee County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Madison County, TX, Marion County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Panola County, TX, Polk County, TX, Rains County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Rusk County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Smith County, TX, Travis County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Walker County, TX, Washington County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wood County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 23, 2:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls42 min
Jan 23, 3:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVRusk44 min
Jan 23, 4:07 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVPanola68 min
Jan 23, 4:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLeon47 min
Jan 23, 5:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston55 min
Jan 23, 5:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson43 min
Jan 23, 5:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCherokee50 min
Jan 23, 6:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson54 min
Jan 23, 6:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVRusk47 min
Jan 23, 6:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNacogdoches31 min
Jan 23, 6:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVNacogdoches, Rusk35 min

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 192 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 1997-01-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 1997-01-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 122 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2794 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 23, 4:45 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson and 30 more6 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.