Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 295
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2001, 9:15 PM CDT for 32 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2001, 9:15 PM CDT (02:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2001, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties
Bandera County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Real County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Tom Green County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 55 min |
| May 26, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Tom Green | 34 min |
| May 26, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Tom Green | 42 min |
| May 26, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 41 min |
| May 26, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 60 min |
| May 26, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 56 min |
| May 26, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 56 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 1655 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3088 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
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 26, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more | 4 hr |
| May 26, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 36 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.