Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Shreveport, LA

June 14, 2001Franklin County, Titus County, Texas

NWS Shreveport, LA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2001, 8:52 PM CDT for Franklin County, Titus County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min. 3 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
Jun 14, 2001, 8:52 PM CDT (01:52 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2001, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Shreveport, LA
Area
Whole counties

Counties Franklin County, TX, Titus County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 14, 9:00 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 62 MTalco, TXTrees down across the town.
Jun 14, 9:30 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 54 EMt Vernon, TXTrees and power lines toppled.
Jun 14, 9:30 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 54 EWinnsboro, TXSeveral large trees down.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 14, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 149 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2001-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2887 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Shreveport, LA at 00:00Z on 2001-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2887 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1233 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KSHV 150155
SVRSHV
TXC159-449-150245-
/NEW.KSHV.SV.W.0170.150152-150245/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
852 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
  TITUS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 852 PM CDT...THE SHREVEPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
  RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR HAGANSPORT
  TO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MT VERNON TEXAS. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS
  MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST NEAR 30 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EFFECT THE TOWNS OF MT VERNON...TALCO AND
  MT PLEASANT TEXAS.

THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING STRONG AND DAMAGING
WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 60 MPH. DO NOT REMAIN OUTSIDE.

REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR..a.
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
  TITUS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS
UNTIL 945 PM CDT.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVRed River62 min
Jun 14, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVBowie57 min
Jun 14, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCamp, Morris, Upshur, Wood59 min
Jun 14, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCass, Marion61 min
Jun 14, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVHarrison60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.