Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 695
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 25, 2001, 1:45 PM MDT for 11 counties in New Mexico; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 32 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 2001, 1:45 PM MDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2001, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 46 counties
Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Taos County, NM, Union County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 2:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roberts | 56 min |
| Aug 25, 2:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 65 min |
| Aug 25, 2:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 57 min |
| Aug 25, 2:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding | 52 min |
| Aug 25, 3:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 65 min |
| Aug 25, 3:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 57 min |
| Aug 25, 3:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding | 59 min |
| Aug 25, 3:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 57 min |
| Aug 25, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 62 min |
| Aug 25, 4:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford | 66 min |
| Aug 25, 4:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 63 min |
| Aug 25, 4:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 37 min |
| Aug 25, 4:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay | 47 min |
| Aug 25, 5:15 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 5:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay, Union | 31 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 681 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2354 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Haskell, Hughes and 15 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Mexico, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.