Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 8
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 29, 2001, 12:00 AM CST for 39 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 29, 2001, 12:00 AM CST (06:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 29, 2001, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Anderson County, TX, Austin County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Colorado County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Houston County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Madison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Milam County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Panola County, TX, Rains County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Smith County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Wharton County, TX, Wood County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 2:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Montgomery | 64 min |
| Jan 29, 3:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, Shelby | 65 min |
| Jan 29, 3:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty, Montgomery | 48 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 308 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
- 1124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 526 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 3:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Angelina, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin, Harris and 10 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.