Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 285
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 24, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT for 32 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2001, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2001, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties
Austin County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Colorado County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Harris County, TX, Hays County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Jefferson County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Orange County, TX, Polk County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Travis County, TX, Tyler County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Wharton County, TX, Wilson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 274 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
- 2879 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 897 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aransas, Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bee, Bell and 35 more | 3 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.