Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 290, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2000, 11:57 AM CDT for Delta County, Hopkins County, Texas. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 2000, 11:57 AM CDT (16:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2000, 12:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Delta County, TX, Hopkins County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 180 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:58 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 12:02 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Cooper, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 508 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 548 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KFWD 051658 SVRFTW TXC119-223-051745- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1157 AM CDT FRI MAY 5 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT WORTH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DELTA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS HOPKINS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST TEXAS * UNTIL 1245 PM CDT * AT 1157 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER COOPER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE COOPER...AND SULPHUR SPRINGS. THIS STORM LIKELY CONTAINS HAIL TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. LAT...LON 3341 9576 3310 9548 3329 9531 3348 9569
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 5, 10:12 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 5, 10:12 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
1012 AM CDT FRI MAY 5 2000
SLOW MOVING UPPER LOW OVER WESTERN ARKANSAS WILL ALLOW FOR BANDS OF
CONVECTION TO CONTINUE OVER NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH THIS
EVENING. STEEP MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES...HIGH PRECIPITABLE WATER...
AND WEAK WINDS ALOFT ARE EVIDENT ON LATEST 12Z SOUNDING. A NUMBER OF
OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES WILL SERVE AS A FOCUS STRONG THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT. WILL CONTINUE WITH THE MENTION OF A FEW SEVERE AND
ADD THE POTENTIAL FOR BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL RESULTING IN RUNOFF.
LATEST SATELLITE LOOP INDICATES MERGING COLD TOPS. WITH A NUMBER OF
COUNTIES WITH A LOW THRESHOLD FOR HEAVY RAINFALL...HAVE ISSUCED A
FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR A LARGE PART OF THE REGION THROUGH THIS
AFTERNOON.
.FTW...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON EXCEPT SOUTHWEST
AND EXTREME NORTHEAST.
48In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 5, 6:55 AM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-051500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS...UPDATED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 655 AM CDT FRI MAY 5 2000 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING MAINLY ALONG AND EAST OF A SHERMAN...CORSICANA...WACO LINE. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF GRAHAM...STEPHENVILLE...GAINESVILLE...TEMPLE AND THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. EARLY THIS MORNING...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG A SURFACE BOUNDARY ALONG A WICHITA FALLS...STEPHENVILLE...BROWNWOOD LINE. THESE STORMS WILL PERSIST THROUGH A GOOD PORTION OF THE MORNING. AND SPOTTER ACTIVATION...ESPECIALLY WEST OF INTERSTATE 35 MAY OCCUR AT ANY TIME THIS MORNING. THE BOUNDARY FROM THIS MORNING STORMS...COMBINED WITH ANOTHER BOUNDARY IN CENTRAL TEXAS...WILL MOVE NORTHWARD DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING...PROVIDING THE FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS. IN ADDITION...SOME CLEARING IS EXPECTED ACROSS NORTH TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. WITH SOLAR HEATING...CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME QUITE UNSTABLE ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. FORECAST WIND PROFILES SUGGEST LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE PRIMARY THREATS WITH THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO FORM...BUT THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR AN ISOLATED TORNADO OR TWO IN THE VICINITY OF THESE BOUNDARIES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION...MAY BE REQUIRED ANYWHERE ACROSS THE SLIGHT RISK AREA BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER/THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOKS FOR ADJACENT AREAS...SEE OKCSPSOKC (NORTHWESTERN TEXAS...WESTERN AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA)... OKCSPSTUL (EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS)...NEWSPSSHV (NORTHEAST TEXAS...NORTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS)...SATSPSHOU (SOUTHEAST TEXAS)... SATSPSSAT (SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS)...AND LBBSPSSJT (WEST CENTRAL TEXAS). 05
Special weather statement, May 5, 7:13 AM CDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-051500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS...CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 713 AM CDT FRI MAY 5 2000 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING MAINLY ALONG AND WEST OF A SHERMAN...CORSICANA...WACO LINE. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF GRAHAM...STEPHENVILLE...GAINESVILLE...TEMPLE AND THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH METROPLEX. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. EARLY THIS MORNING...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG A SURFACE BOUNDARY ALONG A WICHITA FALLS...STEPHENVILLE...BROWNWOOD LINE. THESE STORMS WILL PERSIST THROUGH A GOOD PORTION OF THE MORNING. AND SPOTTER ACTIVATION...ESPECIALLY WEST OF INTERSTATE 35...MAY OCCUR AT ANY TIME THIS MORNING. THE BOUNDARY FROM THIS MORNING STORMS...COMBINED WITH ANOTHER BOUNDARY IN CENTRAL TEXAS...WILL MOVE NORTHWARD DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING...PROVIDING THE FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE ACROSS ALL OF NORTH TEXAS. IN ADDITION...SOME CLEARING IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. WITH SOLAR HEATING...CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME QUITE UNSTABLE. FORECAST WIND PROFILES SUGGEST LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE PRIMARY THREATS WITH THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO FORM...BUT THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR AN ISOLATED TORNADO OR TWO IN THE VICINITY OF THESE BOUNDARIES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION...MAY BE REQUIRED ANYWHERE ACROSS THE SLIGHT RISK AREA BY MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER/THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOKS FOR ADJACENT AREAS...SEE OKCSPSOKC (NORTHWESTERN TEXAS...WESTERN AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA)... OKCSPSTUL (EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS)...NEWSPSSHV (NORTHEAST TEXAS...NORTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS)...SATSPSHOU (SOUTHEAST TEXAS)... SATSPSSAT (SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS)...AND LBBSPSSJT (WEST CENTRAL TEXAS). 05
Special weather statement, May 5, 11:17 AM CDT, 40 minutes before
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-052100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH TEXAS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 1117 AM CDT FRI MAY 5 2000 THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS THROUGH EARLY EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THERE IS ALSO THE POTENTIAL FOR BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH COULD RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. JUST BEFORE MIDDAY...A NEARLY STATIONARY UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WAS LOCATED OVER WESTERN ARKANSAS. WEAK DISTURBANCES ROTATING AROUND THIS STORM WILL ENCOUNTER A DEEPLY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER NORTH TEXAS. AS THUNDERSTORMS FORM AND DISSIPATE...CONVERGING OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES WILL SERVE AS THE FOCUS FOR ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. STEERING WINDS IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE REMAIN LIGHT. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS AND THE TRAINING OF HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING CELLS OVER THE SAME LOCATION. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO THREE INCHES ARE POSSIBLE OVER ALREADY SATURATED SOIL CONDITIONS. THIS MAY LEAD TO HIGH WATER RUNOFF ALONG CREEKS...STREAMS AND A FEW ROADWAYS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND STORM SPOTTERS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS SHOULD BE READY FOR LIMITED SPOTTER ACTIVATION THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLY EVENING. FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER/THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOKS FOR ADJACENT AREAS...SEE OKCSPSOKC (NORTHWESTERN TEXAS...WESTERN AND CENTRAL OKLAHOMA)... OKCSPSTUL (EASTERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTHWEST ARKANSAS)...NEWSPSSHV (NORTHEAST TEXAS...NORTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA AND SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS)...SATSPSHOU (SOUTHEAST TEXAS)... SATSPSSAT (SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS)...AND LBBSPSSJT (WEST CENTRAL TEXAS). 48
The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 47 min |
| May 5, 8:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 43 min |
| May 5, 8:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 49 min |
| May 5, 10:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 50 min |
| May 5, 12:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 43 min |
| May 5, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 51 min |
| May 5, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam, Robertson | 45 min |
| May 5, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam, Robertson | 51 min |
| May 5, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam | 39 min |
| May 5, 6:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Milam | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.