Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 2001, 12:10 AM CDT for Menard County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 23, 2001, 12:10 AM CDT (05:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2001, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Menard County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 12:40 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Menard, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
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 22, 10:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 10:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 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, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Menard | 60 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, 12:46 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
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.