Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 285
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 15, 1997, 8:15 PM CDT for 24 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 1997, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1997, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties
Aransas County, TX, Bee County, TX, Brazoria County, TX, Brooks County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Duval County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, Matagorda County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Starr County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Wharton County, TX, Willacy County, TX, Zapata County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:19 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
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak, San Patricio | 65 min |
| May 15, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg | 62 min |
| May 16, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy | 59 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 3057 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 900 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.3
- Supercell composite
- -1.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 1997Every severe thunderstorm watch in 1997
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.