Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Texas, January 1997
1 tornado watches in January 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 January 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 1
- Busiest day
- January 23, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 4:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson and 30 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Anderson County1
- Angelina County1
- Austin County1
- Bastrop County1
- Brazos County1
- Burleson County1
- Caldwell County1
- Chambers County1
- Cherokee County1
- Fayette County1
- Grimes County1
- Hardin County1
- Harris County1
- Houston County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lee County1
- Leon County1
- Liberty County1
- Madison County1
- Milam County1
- Montgomery County1
- Nacogdoches County1
- Newton County1
- Orange County1
- Polk County1
- Robertson County1
- Sabine County1
- San Augustine County1
- San Jacinto County1
- Shelby County1
- Trinity County1
- Tyler County1
- Walker County1
- Waller County1
- Washington 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.