Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 271
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 8, 1997, 6:30 PM CDT for 34 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 1997, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1997, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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.
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 48 min |
| May 8, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 45 min |
| May 8, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 50 min |
| May 8, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran | 49 min |
| May 8, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 45 min |
| May 8, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 49 min |
| May 8, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 47 min |
| May 8, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 32 min |
| May 8, 8:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 48 min |
| May 8, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran | 44 min |
| May 8, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 50 min |
| May 8, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 35 min |
| May 8, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 32 min |
| May 8, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 49 min |
| May 8, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Gaines | 49 min |
| May 8, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 46 min |
| May 8, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 48 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 1001 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1689 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Baylor, Borden, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Hall | 6 hr |
| May 8, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cottle, Dickens, Foard and 13 more | 7 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.