Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 330
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 30, 2001, 5:30 PM CDT for 32 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 2001, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2001, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties
Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Crane County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ector County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Upton County, TX, Young County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Jones | 61 min |
| May 30, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 61 min |
| May 30, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 65 min |
| May 30, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Taylor | 66 min |
| May 30, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 26 min |
| May 30, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 47 min |
| May 30, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 46 min |
| May 30, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 60 min |
| May 30, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 65 min |
| May 30, 7:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Scurry | 3 hr |
| May 30, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Taylor | 60 min |
| May 30, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan | 52 min |
| May 30, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 46 min |
| May 30, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 68 min |
| May 30, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels | 64 min |
| May 30, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Taylor | 59 min |
| May 30, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 56 min |
| May 30, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 58 min |
| May 30, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 62 min |
| May 30, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 60 min |
| May 30, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 60 min |
| May 30, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 29 min |
| May 30, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 42 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 1442 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -298 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1750 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 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, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Armstrong, Baylor, Briscoe, Carson, Childress and 35 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 1:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Foard, Hardeman, Wheeler and 2 more | 3 hr |
| May 30, 4:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Wichita | 4 hr |
| May 30, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Castro, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham, Parmer | 5 hr |
| May 30, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cooke, Fannin, Grayson, Lamar, Montague, Red River | 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.