Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 2001, 11:04 AM CST for Fannin County, Hunt County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2001, 11:04 AM CST (17:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2001, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Fannin County, TX, Hunt County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 11:15 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Greenville, TX | A roof was damaged by high winds. |
| Feb 24, 11:41 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Bonham, TX | A tree was blown down by high winds. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 7:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 126 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1959 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 668 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 364 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 481 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.6
- Supercell composite
- 18.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 24, 10:04 AM CST, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 10:04 AM CST, 1 hour before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1004 AM CST SAT FEB 24 2001 QUICK UPDATE TO ZONES IN ORDER TO ADJUST POPS...SKY CONDITIONS WESTERN AREAS...AND ADJUST POPS P A LITTLE ELSEWHERE. WILL UPDATE AGAIN LATER AS THE SQUALL LINE PROGRESSES EASTWARD. 75 .FTW...WIND ADVISORY AREAWIDE TODAY THROUGH 600 PM.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Feb 24, 10:15 AM CST, 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1015 AM CST SAT FEB 24 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
...COUNTY LOCATION....
0950 AM SPRINGTOWN TX WIND DAMAGE
02/24/01 PARKER A BARN WAS BLOWN OVER.
REPORTED BY EOC.
0845 AM 10 NE JACKSBORO TX WIND DAMAGE
02/24/01 JACK A 50 FOOT RADIO TOWER
(WITH GUYLINES) WAS
BLOWN OVER.
0937 AM CENTRAL CITY TX WIND DAMAGE
02/24/01 PALOPINTO TWO BARNS WERE BLOWN
DOWN ALONG WITH POWER
LINES.
1005 AM 7 W FORT WORTH TX WIND DAMAGE
02/24/01 TARRANT A ROOF WAS BLOWN OFF AN
APARTMENT COMPLEX.
1009 AM 1 E MUENSTER TX WIND DAMAGE
02/24/01 COOKE POWER LINES WERE BLOWN
DOWN.The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 7:20 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker | 115 min |
| Feb 24, 6:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 48 min |
| Feb 24, 8:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 51 min |
| Feb 24, 9:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague, Wise | 55 min |
| Feb 24, 9:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Parker | 63 min |
| Feb 24, 9:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 48 min |
| Feb 24, 9:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 61 min |
| Feb 24, 10:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 53 min |
| Feb 24, 10:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 39 min |
| Feb 24, 10:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas | 64 min |
| Feb 24, 10:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson | 55 min |
| Feb 24, 11:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rockwall | 48 min |
| Feb 24, 11:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Lamar | 61 min |
| Feb 24, 11:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 61 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.