Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 2001, 10:45 PM CDT for Menard 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 2001, 10:45 PM CDT (03:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2001, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Menard County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 1796 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KSJT 230346 SVRSJT TXC327-230415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1045 PM CDT SUN APR 22 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MENARD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1038 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 36 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MENARD...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ELDORADO...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. MOVE INTO A SLTURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3099 10007 3073 10004 3077 9953 3107 9977
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 22, 10:12 PM CDT, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 10:12 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 1012 PM CDT SUN APR 22 2001 WILL SEND A ZONE UPDATE TO INCREASE POPS ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHERN HALF OF CWFA...BASED ON RADAR TRENDS. 19
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 46 min |
| Apr 22, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sutton | 57 min |
| Apr 22, 11:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Brown | 3 hr |
| Apr 22, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sutton | 67 min |
| Apr 22, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble | 64 min |
| Apr 23, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Menard | 50 min |
| Apr 23, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 44 min |
| Apr 23, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Mason | 50 min |
| Apr 23, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble | 43 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.