Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 296
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2001, 11:00 PM CDT for Beckham County, Harmon County, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma; 42 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2001, 11:00 PM CDT (04:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2001, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties
Beckham County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Moore County, TX, Motley County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Yoakum 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 27, 1:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 39 min |
| May 27, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Knox | 49 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 2379 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2098 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
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 27, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Alfalfa, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Garfield and 15 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Harper, Woodward | 6 hr |
| May 27, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Alfalfa, Blaine, Canadian, Cherokee, Cleveland and 36 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more | 4 hr |
| May 26, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Blanco, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 26 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2001
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.