Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Texas, February 1997
7 tornado watches in February 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 February 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- February 20, 19975 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 9:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Crockett, Dimmit and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 20, 5:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque and 56 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 20, 11:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Brazos, Burleson, Burnet and 34 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 20, 11:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar, Blanco and 32 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 20, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bowie, Brazoria, Camp, Cass and 43 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 20, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass | 6 hr |
| Feb 20, 7:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Newton, Sabine | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Atascosa County3
- Bexar County3
- Gillespie County3
- Kendall County3
- Bee County2
- Frio County2
- Live Oak County2
- McMullen County2
- Medina County2
- Bastrop County2
- Bell County2
- Blanco County2
- Bosque County2
- Burleson County2
- Burnet County2
- Caldwell County2
- Collin County2
- Colorado County2
- Comal County2
- Coryell County2
- Dallas County2
- Denton County2
- DeWitt County2
- Ellis County2
- Falls County2
- Fayette County2
- Goliad County2
- Gonzales County2
- Guadalupe County2
- Hays County2
- Hill County2
- Jackson County2
- Johnson County2
- Karnes County2
- Kaufman County2
- Lampasas County2
- Lavaca County2
- Lee County2
- Limestone County2
- McLennan County2
101 more counties
- Milam County2
- Navarro County2
- Robertson County2
- Rockwall County2
- Somervell County2
- Tarrant County2
- Travis County2
- Victoria County2
- Williamson County2
- Wilson County2
- Anderson County2
- Delta County2
- Fannin County2
- Franklin County2
- Henderson County2
- Hopkins County2
- Hunt County2
- Lamar County2
- Leon County2
- Rains County2
- Red River County2
- Van Zandt County2
- Wood County2
- Brazoria County2
- Fort Bend County2
- Galveston County2
- Harris County2
- Liberty County2
- Montgomery County2
- Cass County2
- Sabine County2
- Bandera County1
- Crockett County1
- Dimmit County1
- Edwards County1
- Kerr County1
- Kimble County1
- Kinney County1
- La Salle County1
- Mason County1
- Maverick County1
- Real County1
- Sutton County1
- Uvalde County1
- Val Verde County1
- Zavala County1
- Brown County1
- Comanche County1
- Eastland County1
- Erath County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hood County1
- Jack County1
- Llano County1
- Mills County1
- Palo Pinto County1
- Parker County1
- San Saba County1
- Stephens County1
- Wise County1
- Young County1
- Brazos County1
- Cooke County1
- Freestone County1
- Grayson County1
- Austin County1
- Calhoun County1
- Matagorda County1
- Refugio County1
- Waller County1
- Washington County1
- Wharton County1
- Angelina County1
- Bowie County1
- Camp County1
- Chambers County1
- Cherokee County1
- Gregg County1
- Hardin County1
- Harrison County1
- Houston County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Morris County1
- Nacogdoches County1
- Orange County1
- Panola County1
- Polk County1
- Rusk County1
- San Augustine County1
- San Jacinto County1
- Shelby County1
- Smith County1
- Titus County1
- Trinity County1
- Tyler County1
- Upshur County1
- Walker County1
- Newton 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.