Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 73
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 2:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 61 min |
| Mar 24, 2:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche | 40 min |
| Mar 24, 2:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 54 min |
| Mar 24, 3:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 48 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.
- 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 23, 8:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Coleman, Collin and 36 more | 6 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.