Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches in 2001
Tornado Watch 119
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 10, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT for 38 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 10, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2001, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties
Armstrong County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Howard County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 42 min |
| Apr 10, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 66 min |
| Apr 10, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 64 min |
| Apr 10, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore, Potter | 48 min |
| Apr 10, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Jones | 42 min |
| Apr 10, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Hutchinson | 65 min |
| Apr 10, 10:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 33 min |
| Apr 10, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 61 min |
| Apr 10, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 54 min |
| Apr 10, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 68 min |
| Apr 10, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 68 min |
| Apr 10, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 59 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 579 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1839 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coke, Crockett, Edwards, Irion, Nolan, Reagan and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 10, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coleman and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Hall, Hardeman, Hemphill and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 11, 2:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Brown, Clay, Collin, Comanche and 30 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 11, 6:15 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Franklin, Gregg and 15 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.