Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 71
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 23, 2001, 6:00 PM CST for 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 2001, 6:00 PM CST (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2001, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 7:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lamb | 41 min |
| Mar 23, 8:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 28 min |
| Mar 23, 8:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 47 min |
| Mar 23, 9:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 34 min |
| Mar 23, 10:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 51 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 685 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1474 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 8:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Coleman, Collin and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 24, 2:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Coleman, Collin 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.