Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 609
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 15, 1997, 1:15 PM CDT for 45 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1997, 1:15 PM CDT (18:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties
Anderson County, TX, Angelina County, TX, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Clay County, TX, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Houston County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Madison County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Montague County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Rusk County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, Smith County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wise County, TX, Wood County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:16 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
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 1:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt, Rains | 68 min |
| Jul 15, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Grayson, Rockwall | 60 min |
| Jul 15, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee | 40 min |
| Jul 15, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 69 min |
| Jul 15, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Denton, Tarrant | 55 min |
| Jul 15, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 52 min |
| Jul 15, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 52 min |
| Jul 15, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hill | 63 min |
| Jul 15, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 58 min |
| Jul 15, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Clay | 41 min |
| Jul 15, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Clay | 50 min |
| Jul 15, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 77 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 277 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
- 430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1993 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Foard, Hardeman, Wichita, Wilbarger | 4 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.