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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 28

February 24, 200118 counties in Oklahoma; 31 counties in Texas

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 24, 3:53 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJackson52 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2001-02-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2001-02-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 425 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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
Feb 24, 12:30 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeckham, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Washita6 hr
Feb 24, 7:15 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland, Coal and 19 more6 hr
Feb 24, 11:15 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, McIntosh, Mayes and 4 more6 hr
Feb 24, 11:30 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCChoctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha6 hr
Feb 24, 3:15 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCHarrison, Marion, Panola6 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.