Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2001, 5:40 PM CST for Coleman County, Texas. It was in force for 65 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
- Mar 8, 2001, 5:40 PM CST (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2001, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Coleman County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 5:50 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Silver Vly, TX | |
| Mar 8, 6:30 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Coleman, TX | Hail up to the size of golf balls fell across a large part of the city of Coleman, causing extensive damage to area roofs and vehicles. Local insurance agencies reported nearly 1000 insurance claims, with damage reaching almost 3 million dollars. |
| Mar 8, 6:52 PM CST | Hail 1 | Santa Anna, TX |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 3:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 878 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KSJT 082341
SVRSJT
TXC083-090045-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX
540 PM CST THU MAR 8 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
COLEMAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
* UNTIL 645 PM CST
* AT 538 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF SILVER VALLEY...OR ABOUT 16
MILES NORTHWEST OF COLEMAN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
SILVER VALLEY AT 550 PM CST
VALERA AT 625 PM CST
COLEMAN AT 630 PM CST
SANTA ANNA AT 645 PM CST
LAT...LON 3205 9925 3205 9969 31z95 9966 3170 9956
3172 9923
SR/TAHThe office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 2:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels, Tom Green | 27 min |
| Mar 8, 2:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble | 66 min |
| Mar 8, 3:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 47 min |
| Mar 8, 3:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Taylor | 47 min |
| Mar 8, 4:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 53 min |
| Mar 8, 4:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Taylor | 61 min |
| Mar 8, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Taylor | 60 min |
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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.