Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 14
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 8, 2001, 9:00 PM CST for 5 counties in Oklahoma; 33 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 8, 2001, 9:00 PM CST (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 9, 2001, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties
Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Childress County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Young County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 8, 9:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 52 min |
| Feb 8, 9:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 60 min |
| Feb 8, 10:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 41 min |
| Feb 8, 10:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Knox, Wilbarger | 40 min |
| Feb 8, 10:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Jones, Taylor | 60 min |
| Feb 8, 11:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor | 40 min |
| Feb 8, 11:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford, Throckmorton | 56 min |
| Feb 8, 11:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan | 56 min |
| Feb 8, 11:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Runnels | 67 min |
| Feb 8, 11:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Cotton, Tillman | 40 min |
| Feb 8, 11:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Wichita | 40 min |
| Feb 8, 11:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 38 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 247 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1237 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 8, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 9, 2:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Delaware and 11 more | 4 hr |
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.