Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings / 1997

Tornado Warnings in Texas, October 1997

41 tornado warnings in October 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 October 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
41
Busiest day
October 23, 199727 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
Oct 7, 8:25 AM CDTTornado WarningHGXGalveston50 min
Oct 8, 6:53 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTBrown47 min
Oct 23, 4:26 AM CDTTornado WarningSJTMitchell, Nolan49 min
Oct 23, 5:08 AM CDTTornado WarningSJTFisher32 min
Oct 23, 1:52 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXFort Bend53 min
Oct 23, 2:03 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXHarris57 min
Oct 23, 2:19 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXHarris56 min
Oct 23, 2:36 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBosque54 min
Oct 23, 2:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDHill45 min
Oct 23, 2:58 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXGrimes, Walker62 min
Oct 23, 3:12 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXHarris63 min
Oct 23, 3:28 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXAustin62 min
Oct 23, 3:43 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXLiberty62 min
Oct 23, 3:50 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXWaller55 min
Oct 23, 3:51 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXTrinity69 min
Oct 23, 4:08 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXHarris, Montgomery67 min
Oct 23, 5:01 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXLiberty, San Jacinto59 min
Oct 23, 5:06 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDWise39 min
Oct 23, 5:12 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDAnderson33 min
Oct 23, 5:12 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXMontgomery63 min
Oct 23, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHTyler45 min
Oct 23, 5:37 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXPolk68 min
Oct 23, 5:40 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXSan Jacinto65 min
Oct 23, 5:46 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVCherokee59 min
Oct 23, 5:58 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXLiberty47 min
Oct 23, 6:10 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVShelby35 min
Oct 23, 6:17 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVAngelina43 min
Oct 23, 6:40 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXPolk35 min
Oct 23, 6:51 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHTyler54 min
Oct 23, 7:16 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHJasper44 min
Oct 23, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WarningLCHNewton60 min
Oct 23, 7:50 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVShelby40 min
Oct 23, 7:50 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVSabine40 min
Oct 23, 11:48 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVSan Augustine27 min
Oct 25, 4:56 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXHouston64 min
Oct 25, 5:23 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXMadison, Walker67 min
Oct 25, 5:40 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXMontgomery, Waller65 min
Oct 25, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXGrimes35 min
Oct 30, 2:48 PM CSTTornado WarningHGXMontgomery42 min
Oct 30, 3:29 PM CSTTornado WarningHGXLiberty, Montgomery61 min
Oct 30, 4:29 PM CSTTornado WarningHGXBrazoria46 min

By county

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

Nearby

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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.