Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 359
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 30, 1997, 1:45 PM CDT for 36 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 1997, 1:45 PM CDT (18:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1997, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Montague County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 67 min |
| May 30, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 65 min |
| May 30, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 61 min |
| May 30, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 43 min |
| May 30, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 55 min |
| May 30, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman, Rockwall | 68 min |
| May 30, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 56 min |
| May 30, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 62 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -241 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Armstrong, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Carson and 36 more | 6 hr |
| May 29, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Foard and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 6:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bosque, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 12:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bowie | 6 hr |
| May 30, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Coke and 24 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.