Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 286
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 24, 2001, 11:00 PM CDT for 41 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2001, 11:00 PM CDT (04:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2001, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties
Aransas County, TX, Atascosa County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bee County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Medina County, TX, Milam County, TX, Real County, TX, Refugio County, TX, Travis County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Zavala County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 50 min |
| May 24, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 64 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 813 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3306 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Austin, Bastrop, Burleson, Caldwell, Chambers, Colorado and 26 more | 6 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.