Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 28
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 24, 2001, 3:30 AM CST for 18 counties in Oklahoma; 31 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2001, 3:30 AM CST (09:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2001, 8:00 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties
Caddo County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Montague County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto 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
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 3:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 52 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 425 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 535 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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, 12:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Washita | 6 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.