Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 333
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 30, 2001, 6:45 PM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico; 32 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 2001, 6:45 PM MDT (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2001, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Curry County, NM, Lea County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Kent County, TX, King 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, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 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.
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 6:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 41 min |
| May 30, 6:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 65 min |
| May 30, 7:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 62 min |
| May 30, 7:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay | 30 min |
| May 30, 7:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lamb | 57 min |
| May 30, 8:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock | 60 min |
| May 30, 8:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn, Terry | 52 min |
| May 30, 9:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 32 min |
| May 30, 9:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 52 min |
| May 30, 10:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 31 min |
| May 30, 10:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent | 47 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 1372 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1494 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
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 31, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Harding, Union | 5 hr |
| May 30, 8:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Cooke, Montague | 4 hr |
| May 30, 10:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 34 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.