Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Texas, March 1997
7 tornado watches in March 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 March 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- March 2, 19974 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 12:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Dallas, Delta, Franklin and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Harrison | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Brazos and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aransas, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Duval, Fort Bend and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 9:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 24, 10:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coke and 26 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bowie County2
- Camp County2
- Cass County2
- Franklin County2
- Marion County2
- Morris County2
- Titus County2
- Upshur County2
- Van Zandt County2
- Wood County2
- Harrison County2
- Gregg County2
- Karnes County2
- Dallas County1
- Delta County1
- Hopkins County1
- Hunt County1
- Kaufman County1
- Lamar County1
- Rains County1
- Red River County1
- Rockwall County1
- Atascosa County1
- Austin County1
- Bastrop County1
- Bexar County1
- Blanco County1
- Brazos County1
- Burleson County1
- Caldwell County1
- Colorado County1
- Comal County1
- DeWitt County1
- Fayette County1
- Frio County1
- Gillespie County1
- Gonzales County1
- Grimes County1
- Guadalupe County1
- Harris County1
83 more counties
- Hays County1
- Houston County1
- Kendall County1
- Lavaca County1
- Lee County1
- Leon County1
- Madison County1
- Medina County1
- Milam County1
- Montgomery County1
- Robertson County1
- Travis County1
- Walker County1
- Waller County1
- Washington County1
- Williamson County1
- Wilson County1
- Aransas County1
- Bee County1
- Brazoria County1
- Calhoun County1
- Duval County1
- Fort Bend County1
- Goliad County1
- Jackson County1
- Jim Hogg County1
- Jim Wells County1
- Kleberg County1
- Live Oak County1
- McMullen County1
- Matagorda County1
- Nueces County1
- Refugio County1
- San Patricio County1
- Victoria County1
- Wharton County1
- Angelina County1
- Cherokee County1
- Hardin County1
- Jasper County1
- Jefferson County1
- Nacogdoches County1
- Newton County1
- Orange County1
- Panola County1
- Rusk County1
- Sabine County1
- San Augustine County1
- Shelby County1
- Smith County1
- Tyler County1
- Archer County1
- Baylor County1
- Brown County1
- Callahan County1
- Clay County1
- Coke County1
- Coleman County1
- Comanche County1
- Cooke County1
- Denton County1
- Eastland County1
- Erath County1
- Grayson County1
- Haskell County1
- Hood County1
- Jack County1
- Jones County1
- Mills County1
- Montague County1
- Nolan County1
- Palo Pinto County1
- Parker County1
- Runnels County1
- Shackelford County1
- Stephens County1
- Sterling County1
- Taylor County1
- Throckmorton County1
- Tom Green County1
- Wichita County1
- Wise County1
- Young 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.