Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 188
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 3, 2001, 1:00 PM MDT for Curry County, Quay County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; 22 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 2001, 1:00 PM MDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2001, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Curry County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Motley County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 1:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 30 min |
| May 3, 1:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 52 min |
| May 3, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 45 min |
| May 3, 3:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran | 44 min |
| May 3, 3:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran | 49 min |
| May 3, 4:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran | 44 min |
| May 3, 4:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 46 min |
| May 3, 5:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran | 48 min |
| May 3, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 28 min |
| May 3, 5:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 40 min |
| May 3, 6:00 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Bailey | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 529 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Cochran, Crane, Crockett, Crosby and 24 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 5:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Dickens and 13 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Mexico, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.