Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 290
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 25, 2001, 10:30 PM CDT for 33 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2001, 10:30 PM CDT (03:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2001, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties
Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Borden County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Coke County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Ector County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb 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, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 743 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2631 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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 25, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bee, Bexar, Dimmit, Frio, Guadalupe and 8 more | 3 hr |
| May 26, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Borden, Briscoe, Callahan, Castro, Childress, Coke and 27 more | 5 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.