Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 328
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 30, 2001, 2:00 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 2001, 2:00 PM MDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2001, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Curry County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Castro County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 187 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 2:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 51 min |
| May 30, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding | 45 min |
| May 30, 3:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 60 min |
| May 30, 3:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Harding | 30 min |
| May 30, 3:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 88 min |
| May 30, 3:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding | 41 min |
| May 30, 4:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 67 min |
| May 30, 4:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding | 39 min |
| May 30, 4:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Quay | 42 min |
| May 30, 5:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay | 44 min |
| May 30, 5:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 85 min |
| May 30, 5:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith, Oldham | 51 min |
| May 30, 5:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay | 61 min |
| May 30, 6:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 39 min |
| May 30, 6:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Parmer | 61 min |
| May 30, 6:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 41 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -411 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2031 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 29, 6:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Dewey and 12 more | 6 hr |
| May 29, 9:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 30 more | 6 hr |
| May 29, 11:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 30, 12:00 AM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 3 more | 3 hr |
| May 30, 3:00 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland and 20 more | 4 hr |
| May 30, 6:30 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha, Sequoyah | 4 hr |
| May 30, 3:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Garvin and 12 more | 5 hr |
| May 30, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche and 26 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Colorado, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Mexico, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.