Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 93
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 5, 1997, 3:15 AM CST for 7 counties in Oklahoma; 22 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 1997, 3:15 AM CST (09:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 1997, 9:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties
Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Camp County, TX, Collin County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Morris County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:14 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
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 5:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 41 min |
| Mar 5, 5:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 66 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 276 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 820 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 11:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cass | 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.