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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 73

March 24, 200140 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 24, 2001, 2:00 AM CST for 40 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 24, 2001, 2:00 AM CST (08:00 UTC)
Expired
Mar 24, 2001, 7:00 AM CST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties

Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mills County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 24, 2:14 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker61 min
Mar 24, 2:20 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche40 min
Mar 24, 2:36 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto54 min
Mar 24, 3:57 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson, Tarrant48 min

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 166 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 00:00Z on 2001-03-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1395 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2001-03-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 103 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 23, 6:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Cottle, Crosby and 15 more5 hr
Mar 23, 8:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Coleman, Collin and 36 more6 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.