Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches in 1997
Tornado Watch 194
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 24, 1997, 4:30 PM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 1997, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 1997, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Crane County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 958 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 629 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 798 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Coke, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens and 24 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
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.