Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Texas, December 1997
2 tornado watches in December 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 December 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- December 20, 19971 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 20, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 23, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado, DeWitt and 26 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- DeWitt County2
- Goliad County2
- Gonzales County2
- Refugio County2
- San Patricio County2
- Atascosa County1
- Bastrop County1
- Bee County1
- Bexar County1
- Blanco County1
- Burnet County1
- Caldwell County1
- Comal County1
- Frio County1
- Gillespie County1
- Guadalupe County1
- Hays County1
- Karnes County1
- Kendall County1
- La Salle County1
- Lee County1
- Live Oak County1
- Llano County1
- McMullen County1
- Medina County1
- Milam County1
- Travis County1
- Williamson County1
- Wilson County1
- Austin County1
- Brazoria County1
- Calhoun County1
- Chambers County1
- Colorado County1
- Fayette County1
- Fort Bend County1
- Galveston County1
- Hardin County1
- Harris County1
- Jackson County1
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. Rebuilt daily.