Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS San Angelo, TX
NWS San Angelo, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2001, 9:48 PM CDT for Irion County, Tom Green County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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
- May 26, 2001, 9:48 PM CDT (02:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2001, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS San Angelo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Irion County, TX, Tom Green County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 9:58 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Carlsbad, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| May 26, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1655 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3088 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
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 May 26, 9:27 PM CDT, 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 9:27 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN ANGELO TX 927 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2001 NEW ZONES HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 295. LINEAR MCS BEGINNING TO TAKE SHAPE OVER SOUTHERN BIG COUNTRY AND NORTHWEST CONCHO VALLEY. CURRENT RADAR TRENDS SUGGEST WIDESPREAD COVERAGE SOUTHEAST OF EXISTING LINE. HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED POPS IN ADVANCE OF LINE. HAVE ALSO DROPPED POPS IN WAKE OF LINE. HOWEVER... WITH CONVECTION OVER PANHANDLE CANT TOTALLY RULE OUT A SECOND ROUND LATE TONIGHT OVER NORTHERN PARTS OF AREA. WILL LEAVE SMALL POPS OVER THOSE AREAS. .SJT...NONE. 12
The office that day
Everything else NWS San Angelo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Sterling | 35 min |
| May 26, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Tom Green | 34 min |
| May 26, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 41 min |
| May 26, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 56 min |
| May 26, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 56 min |
| May 27, 2:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 56 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.