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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 8:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Galveston | 50 min |
| Oct 8, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Brown | 47 min |
| Oct 23, 4:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Mitchell, Nolan | 49 min |
| Oct 23, 5:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher | 32 min |
| Oct 23, 1:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Fort Bend | 53 min |
| Oct 23, 2:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris | 57 min |
| Oct 23, 2:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris | 56 min |
| Oct 23, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bosque | 54 min |
| Oct 23, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hill | 45 min |
| Oct 23, 2:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Grimes, Walker | 62 min |
| Oct 23, 3:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris | 63 min |
| Oct 23, 3:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Austin | 62 min |
| Oct 23, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty | 62 min |
| Oct 23, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Waller | 55 min |
| Oct 23, 3:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Trinity | 69 min |
| Oct 23, 4:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris, Montgomery | 67 min |
| Oct 23, 5:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty, San Jacinto | 59 min |
| Oct 23, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Wise | 39 min |
| Oct 23, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Anderson | 33 min |
| Oct 23, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 63 min |
| Oct 23, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Tyler | 45 min |
| Oct 23, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Polk | 68 min |
| Oct 23, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | San Jacinto | 65 min |
| Oct 23, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Cherokee | 59 min |
| Oct 23, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty | 47 min |
| Oct 23, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Shelby | 35 min |
| Oct 23, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Angelina | 43 min |
| Oct 23, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Polk | 35 min |
| Oct 23, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Tyler | 54 min |
| Oct 23, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Jasper | 44 min |
| Oct 23, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LCH | Newton | 60 min |
| Oct 23, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Shelby | 40 min |
| Oct 23, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Sabine | 40 min |
| Oct 23, 11:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | San Augustine | 27 min |
| Oct 25, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Houston | 64 min |
| Oct 25, 5:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Madison, Walker | 67 min |
| Oct 25, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Montgomery, Waller | 65 min |
| Oct 25, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Grimes | 35 min |
| Oct 30, 2:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 42 min |
| Oct 30, 3:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty, Montgomery | 61 min |
| Oct 30, 4:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 46 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Montgomery County5
- Harris County4
- Liberty County4
- Grimes County2
- Walker County2
- Waller County2
- San Jacinto County2
- Tyler County2
- Polk County2
- Shelby County2
- Galveston County1
- Brown County1
- Mitchell County1
- Nolan County1
- Fisher County1
- Fort Bend County1
- Bosque County1
- Hill County1
- Austin County1
- Trinity County1
- Wise County1
- Anderson County1
- Cherokee County1
- Angelina County1
- Jasper County1
- Newton County1
- Sabine County1
- San Augustine County1
- Houston County1
- Madison County1
- Brazoria County1
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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.