Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2001, 8:42 PM CDT for Haskell County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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
- May 17, 2001, 8:42 PM CDT (01:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2001, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Haskell County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 2160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1350 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KSJT 180143 SVRSJT TXC207-180230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 842 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HASKELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 837 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER RULE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES WEST OF HASKELL... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. LAT...LON 3'318 9997 3308 9984 3316 9974 3324 9984
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 May 17, 3:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 17, 3:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 310 PM CDT THU MAY 17 2001 THE LOCATION OF WEAK COLD FRONT...STRENGTH OF CAP...AND POSSIBLE INFLUENCE OF EMBEDDED UPPER IMPULSES WILL BEAR MONITORING FOR THUNDERSTORM POSSIBILITY NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. A SURFACE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY HAS DRIFTED SOUTH INTO BIG COUNTRY...BUT THINK THE STRENGTH OF CAP WILL PREVENT DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING. WILL INSERT A LOW POP FOR NORTHERNMOST COUNTIES OVERNIGHT...WHERE A FEW STORMS MAY MOVE IN FROM THE NORTHWEST ALONG/AHEAD OF WEAK COLD FRONT. FRONT PROGGED TO DRIFT SOUTH INTO CENTRAL COUNTIES ON FRIDAY...BEFORE BECOMING NEARLY STATIONARY WITH LITTLE MOVEMENT INTO SATURDAY. WILL CARRY LOW CHANCE POP OVER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL COUNTIES FRI...BUT CAP STRENGTH MAY INHIBIT DEVELOPMENT. ETA BRINGS IN AN UPPER IMPULSE FRI AFTERNOON...AND LIFT FROM THIS FEATURE MAY BE SUFFICIENT TO OVERCOME CAP. WILL ALSO CARRY A LOW CHANCE POP FRI NIGHT AND SATURDAY ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL COUNTIES...WITH PROXIMITY OF FRONT...SUFFICIENT MOISTURE AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS. IN THE EXTENDED...UPPER LOW OVER BAJA CA/NORTHERN MEXICO TO WEAKEN WITH REMNANTS EJECTING ENE INTO TX. ANOTHER SURFACE FRONT/TROUGH ALSO PROGGED TO MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO TX SUNDAY. WILL RETAIN SLIGHT CHANCE POPS SUN...AND THIS MAY NEED TO BE UPGRADED IF LATER MODEL RUNS ARE CONSISTENT WITH MOISTURE AVAILABILITY. STRONG UPPER TROUGH TO DIG SSE INTO PLAINS EARLY NEXT WEEK...WITH ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT MOVING SOUTH ACROSS OUR CWFA MONDAY. WILL INSERT SLIGHT CHANCE POP FOR MON WITH THIS STRONGER FRONTT. ABI 071/087/065/090 1322 SJT 070/092/068/095 0222 JCTB 068/093/069/094 0111 .SJT...NONE. 19
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 46 min |
| May 17, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 49 min |
| May 17, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Haskell | 26 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.