Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT for Sterling County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Sterling County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 931 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2485 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 San Angelo, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 16, 7:51 PM CDT, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 7:51 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Apr 16, 2:38 PM CDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-162300- WEST CENTRAL TEXAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 238 PM CDT MON APR 16 2001 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT ACROSS PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS... A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE BIG COUNTRY EARLY THIS EVENING...THEN PUSH SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS BY MIDNIGHT. MEANWHILE...MOISTURE WILL SURGE BACK NORTHWARD INTO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON...AS DAYTIME HEATING COMBINES WITH ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE. THE BEST CHANCE OF STORMS HOWEVER WILL BE AFTER 9 PM...AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES IN. ENOUGH INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE WILL EXIST OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TO PRODUCE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THIS AREA IS ALONG AND SOUTH OF A STERLING CITY...WINTERS...SAN SABA LINE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.. FOR THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT LBBSPSMAF. FOR THE SOUTH PLAINS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT LBBSPSLBB. FOR THE CENTRAL OKLAHOMA OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT OKCSPSOKC. FOR THE NORTH TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT FTWSPSFTW. FOR THE SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT SATSPSSAT. 04
Special weather statement, Apr 16, 2:41 PM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before
TXZ049-054-064>066-071>073-076>078-098-099-113-114-127-128-139-140- 154-155-168>170-162300- WEST CENTRAL TEXAS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 241 PM CDT MON APR 16 2001 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT ACROSS PARTS OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS... A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE BIG COUNTRY EARLY THIS EVENING...THEN PUSH SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS BY MIDNIGHT. MEANWHILE...MOISTURE WILL SURGE BACK NORTHWARD INTO WEST CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON...AS DAYTIME HEATING COMBINES WITH ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE. THE BEST CHANCE OF STORMS HOWEVER WILL BE AFTER 9 PM...AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES IN. ENOUGH INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE WILL EXIST OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF WEST CENTRAL TEXAS TO PRODUCE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THIS AREA IS ALONG AND SOUTH OF A STERLING CITY...WINTERS...SAN SABA LINE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.. FOR THE SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT LBBSPSMAF. FOR THE SOUTH PLAINS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT LBBSPSLBB. FOR THE CENTRAL OKLAHOMA OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT OKCSPSOKC. FOR THE NORTH TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT FTWSPSFTW. FOR THE SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS OUTLOOK SEE PRODUCT SATSPSSAT. 04
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 61 min |
| Apr 16, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 16 min |
| Apr 16, 10:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Crockett, Irion | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 76 min |
| Apr 17, 1:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Irion | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.