Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Texas, April 1997
12 tornado watches in April 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest day
- April 11, 19973 tornado watches
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 1:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Dallas, Denton, Ellis and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bastrop, Bell, Brazos, Burleson and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 7:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bexar, Brazos, Burleson and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 10, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran and 35 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 10, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Coke and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 3:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coke and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado, Fayette and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 1:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin, Freestone and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 24, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Coke, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 24, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crane, Pecos, Reagan, Terrell, Upton, Ward | 5 hr |
| Apr 25, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Brazoria and 31 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hardin County4
- Montgomery County4
- San Jacinto County4
- Washington County4
- Coke County4
- Fisher County4
- Mitchell County4
- Nolan County4
- Sterling County4
- Stonewall County4
- Limestone County3
- Bastrop County3
- Burleson County3
- Freestone County3
- Grimes County3
- Lee County3
- Nacogdoches County3
- Polk County3
- Shelby County3
- Travis County3
- Trinity County3
- Tyler County3
- Austin County3
- Colorado County3
- Fayette County3
- Lavaca County3
- Waller County3
- Brazoria County3
- Chambers County3
- Fort Bend County3
- Galveston County3
- Harris County3
- Jefferson County3
- Liberty County3
- Matagorda County3
- Wharton County3
- Andrews County3
- Borden County3
- Crosby County3
- Dawson County3
132 more counties
- Dickens County3
- Ector County3
- Gaines County3
- Garza County3
- Glasscock County3
- Hockley County3
- Howard County3
- Kent County3
- Lubbock County3
- Lynn County3
- Martin County3
- Midland County3
- Reagan County3
- Scurry County3
- Terry County3
- Haskell County3
- Jones County3
- Knox County3
- Taylor County3
- Hopkins County2
- Hunt County2
- McLennan County2
- Rains County2
- Van Zandt County2
- Wise County2
- Anderson County2
- Angelina County2
- Brazos County2
- Cherokee County2
- Falls County2
- Houston County2
- Jasper County2
- Leon County2
- Madison County2
- Milam County2
- Newton County2
- Robertson County2
- Sabine County2
- San Augustine County2
- Walker County2
- Williamson County2
- Atascosa County2
- Bexar County2
- Caldwell County2
- Comal County2
- DeWitt County2
- Gonzales County2
- Guadalupe County2
- Hays County2
- Karnes County2
- Wilson County2
- Harrison County2
- Orange County2
- Panola County2
- Briscoe County2
- Castro County2
- Crane County2
- Floyd County2
- Hale County2
- Hall County2
- Irion County2
- Lamb County2
- Motley County2
- Swisher County2
- Tom Green County2
- Upton County2
- Yoakum County2
- King County2
- Runnels County2
- Jackson County2
- Victoria County2
- Bosque County1
- Collin County1
- Comanche County1
- Dallas County1
- Denton County1
- Ellis County1
- Erath County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hill County1
- Hood County1
- Johnson County1
- Kaufman County1
- Mills County1
- Navarro County1
- Parker County1
- Rockwall County1
- Somervell County1
- Tarrant County1
- Bell County1
- Bailey County1
- Cochran County1
- Parmer County1
- Childress County1
- Cottle County1
- Foard County1
- Hardeman County1
- Archer County1
- Baylor County1
- Brown County1
- Callahan County1
- Clay County1
- Coleman County1
- Concho County1
- Cooke County1
- Eastland County1
- Jack County1
- McCulloch County1
- Montague County1
- Palo Pinto County1
- Shackelford County1
- Stephens County1
- Throckmorton County1
- Young County1
- Calhoun County1
- Camp County1
- Cass County1
- Franklin County1
- Gregg County1
- Henderson County1
- Marion County1
- Morris County1
- Rusk County1
- Smith County1
- Titus County1
- Upshur County1
- Wood County1
- Pecos County1
- Terrell County1
- Ward County1
- Blanco County1
- Goliad 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. Rebuilt daily.