Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 282
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 15, 1997, 1:30 AM CDT for 24 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1997, 1:30 AM CDT (06:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1997, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties
Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Hood County, TX, Irion County, TX, Kimble County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mills County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Tom Green County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:32 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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 1:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke | 78 min |
| May 15, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 61 min |
| May 15, 1:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Taylor | 2 hr |
| May 15, 2:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Runnels | 63 min |
| May 15, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 63 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 |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
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 15, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Brown, Burnet and 34 more | 6 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.