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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 197

May 5, 200134 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 5, 2001, 2:30 PM CDT for 34 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 2001, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties

Bell County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Brown County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Concho County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hill County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Lee County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Llano County, TX, Madison County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Menard County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Robertson County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 2:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque59 min
May 5, 2:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSan Saba48 min
May 5, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Hill60 min
May 5, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell55 min
May 5, 5:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXTravis, Williamson88 min
May 5, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan62 min
May 5, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Navarro43 min

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 211 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2001-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2001-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
667 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 4, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBosque, Clay, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Dallas and 14 more4 hr
May 4, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBell, Blanco, Burnet, Coryell, Falls, Hamilton and 6 more3 hr
May 4, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, Dimmit and 7 more2 hr
May 5, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, King and 3 more6 hr

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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.