Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings / 1997

Tornado Warnings in Texas, May 1997

115 tornado warnings in May 1997. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
115
Busiest day
May 27, 199719 tornado warnings

Over time

By day

Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 8:13 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHansford47 min
May 6, 8:14 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBCastro51 min
May 6, 8:25 PM CDTTornado WarningAMASherman50 min
May 6, 8:45 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAMoore45 min
May 7, 6:42 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAMoore33 min
May 7, 7:07 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFEctor33 min
May 7, 7:38 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAGray52 min
May 7, 8:02 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACarson28 min
May 7, 8:05 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFBrewster30 min
May 7, 9:17 PM CDTTornado WarningAMADonley28 min
May 8, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNClay45 min
May 8, 8:18 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFAndrews, Gaines32 min
May 8, 8:22 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBYoakum48 min
May 8, 8:41 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNClay34 min
May 8, 8:45 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFAndrews, Gaines35 min
May 8, 9:26 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFGaines49 min
May 8, 9:40 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDWise50 min
May 9, 12:23 PM CDTTornado WarningCRPJim Wells37 min
May 15, 1:47 AM CDTTornado WarningSJTCoke78 min
May 15, 2:06 AM CDTTornado WarningSJTJones64 min
May 15, 2:32 AM CDTTornado WarningSJTRunnels63 min
May 15, 2:51 AM CDTTornado WarningSJTShackelford79 min
May 15, 3:01 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTSchleicher59 min
May 15, 3:35 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXHarris55 min
May 15, 4:02 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTSchleicher93 min
May 15, 6:06 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXHouston69 min
May 15, 6:18 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXTrinity57 min
May 19, 2:58 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTConcho62 min
May 19, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTTom Green35 min
May 19, 4:14 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTCrockett61 min
May 19, 4:28 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTBrown62 min
May 20, 12:17 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXMontgomery58 min
May 21, 7:03 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTCrockett77 min
May 21, 7:09 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXColorado66 min
May 21, 7:43 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXWharton62 min
May 22, 5:06 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHutchinson39 min
May 22, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBSwisher35 min
May 23, 2:42 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXHarris33 min
May 23, 3:38 PM CDTTornado WarningCRPBee, Live Oak67 min
May 25, 7:22 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDMontague38 min
May 25, 7:25 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCooke50 min
May 25, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCooke60 min
May 25, 8:17 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDMontague28 min
May 25, 8:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDMontague15 min
May 25, 9:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDGrayson64 min
May 25, 9:14 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCooke61 min
May 25, 10:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCooke64 min
May 25, 10:38 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDGrayson37 min
May 25, 10:48 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCollin42 min
May 26, 11:14 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDGrayson46 min
May 26, 11:58 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDGrayson62 min
May 27, 1:30 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDLamar60 min
May 27, 1:21 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDMcLennan39 min
May 27, 1:42 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDFalls33 min
May 27, 1:48 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBell42 min
May 27, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBell45 min
May 27, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDNavarro45 min
May 27, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBell45 min
May 27, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXWilliamson60 min
May 27, 3:36 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDHill, Limestone54 min
May 27, 3:43 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDFreestone, Navarro47 min
May 27, 4:09 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXTravis66 min
May 27, 4:28 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDLimestone47 min
May 27, 4:58 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXHays62 min
May 27, 5:14 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDLimestone, McLennan61 min
May 27, 5:52 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXKendall68 min
May 27, 6:24 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXUvalde36 min
May 27, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXKendall64 min
May 27, 8:01 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXGonzales59 min
May 27, 8:18 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXFrio57 min
May 27, 10:44 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVAngelina46 min
May 27, 11:20 PM CDTTornado WarningBROJim Hogg55 min
May 27, 11:33 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVAngelina27 min
May 28, 2:59 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXPolk31 min
May 28, 3:36 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXBrazoria, Fort Bend69 min
May 28, 5:28 PM CDTTornado WarningAMADeaf Smith47 min
May 28, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBParmer50 min
May 28, 6:08 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFAndrews47 min
May 28, 6:19 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBParmer26 min
May 28, 6:38 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFEctor47 min
May 28, 6:42 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBParmer33 min
May 28, 6:55 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBLamb45 min
May 28, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFAndrews48 min
May 28, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFWinkler47 min
May 28, 7:23 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFEctor47 min
May 28, 7:37 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBLamb63 min
May 28, 8:03 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBParmer47 min
May 28, 8:09 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFGaines51 min
May 28, 8:46 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBBailey44 min
May 28, 9:28 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBBailey62 min
May 28, 9:41 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBLamb64 min
May 29, 3:37 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXWharton38 min
May 29, 9:12 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHutchinson48 min
May 29, 9:41 PM CDTTornado WarningAMARandall34 min
May 29, 9:47 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACarson, Gray43 min
May 29, 10:01 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBSwisher64 min
May 29, 10:13 PM CDTTornado WarningAMARandall17 min
May 30, 3:45 AM CDTTornado WarningLUBHale30 min
May 30, 3:49 AM CDTTornado WarningLUBFloyd31 min
May 30, 3:54 AM CDTTornado WarningLUBCrosby31 min
May 30, 7:15 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDParker30 min
May 30, 7:18 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDParker27 min
May 30, 8:30 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDParker15 min
May 30, 5:20 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDMcLennan40 min
May 30, 5:32 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDCoryell43 min
May 30, 5:57 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBell48 min
May 30, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBell34 min
May 30, 6:58 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXWilliamson62 min
May 30, 8:06 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTSchleicher64 min
May 30, 11:02 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXMadison58 min
May 30, 11:38 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXHarris67 min
May 31, 12:27 AM CDTTornado WarningHGXHarris, Liberty, Montgomery63 min
May 31, 12:30 AM CDTTornado WarningHGXAustin60 min
May 31, 2:31 AM CDTTornado WarningSJTKimble79 min
May 31, 3:59 AM CDTTornado WarningHGXJackson61 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

34 more counties

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.