Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 27
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 24, 2001, 12:30 AM CST for 6 counties in Oklahoma; 36 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2001, 12:30 AM CST (06:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2001, 6:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 42 counties
Beckham County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Washita County, OK, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Coke County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Ector County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Gray 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, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 1:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 48 min |
| Feb 24, 1:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 40 min |
| Feb 24, 2:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harmon | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 2:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 3:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 52 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 958 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 753 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
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 24, 3:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 24, 7:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland, Coal and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 24, 11:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, McIntosh, Mayes and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 24, 11:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 6 hr |
| Feb 24, 3:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Harrison, Marion, Panola | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 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.