Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 189
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 3, 2001, 3:00 PM CDT for 30 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 2001, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties
Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran | 44 min |
| May 3, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran | 49 min |
| May 3, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry, Yoakum | 49 min |
| May 3, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Cochran | 27 min |
| May 3, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 32 min |
| May 3, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran | 44 min |
| May 3, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 43 min |
| May 3, 6:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Cochran | 3 hr |
| May 3, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran | 48 min |
| May 3, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 46 min |
| May 3, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 33 min |
| May 3, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 42 min |
| May 3, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran | 42 min |
| May 3, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 25 min |
| May 3, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 45 min |
| May 3, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 46 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 945 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1244 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 16 more | 5 hr |
| May 3, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Dickens and 13 more | 6 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.