Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 72
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 23, 2001, 8:15 PM CST for 10 counties in Oklahoma; 42 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 2001, 8:15 PM CST (02:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2001, 2:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 52 counties
Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Coal County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Murray County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Foard County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 8:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Love | 31 min |
| Mar 23, 9:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka | 36 min |
| Mar 23, 10:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 35 min |
| Mar 23, 10:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 78 min |
| Mar 23, 10:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 51 min |
| Mar 23, 10:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Haskell | 64 min |
| Mar 23, 11:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 48 min |
| Mar 23, 11:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Knox | 38 min |
| Mar 23, 11:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Parker, Wise | 65 min |
| Mar 24, 12:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Jones | 40 min |
| Mar 24, 12:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Taylor | 41 min |
| Mar 24, 1:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Jack | 3 hr |
| Mar 24, 1:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 60 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 1395 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 928 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
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, 6:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Cottle, Crosby and 15 more | 5 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.