Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches in 1997
Tornado Watch 396
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 8, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT for 19 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1997, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Bandera County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Real County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Terrell | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 116 min |
| Jun 8, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos, Terrell | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos, Terrell | 41 min |
| Jun 8, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 51 min |
| Jun 8, 8:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Crockett, Schleicher | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 8:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 56 min |
| Jun 8, 8:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Terrell | 2 hr |
| Jun 8, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 35 min |
| Jun 8, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 49 min |
| Jun 8, 10:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 69 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 2203 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1290 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 8.7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Bailey, Baylor, Borden, Briscoe, Childress and 28 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.