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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 346

June 1, 200124 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 1, 2001, 2:30 PM CDT for 24 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 1, 2001, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties

Bandera County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Medina County, TX, Menard County, TX, Real County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Travis County, TX, Wilson County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 2:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTColeman, McCulloch54 min
Jun 1, 2:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTMcCulloch3 hr
Jun 1, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXLlano61 min
Jun 1, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGillespie67 min
Jun 1, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet43 min
Jun 1, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKerr60 min
Jun 1, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKendall59 min
Jun 1, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera67 min

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 306 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2001-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2001-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1334 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.