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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2000, 3:20 PM CDT for Wichita County, Texas. It was in force for 40 min. 3 reports 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 27, 2000, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Wichita County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 3:35 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Wichita Falls, TX | |
| May 27, 3:50 PM CDT | Hail 1.25 | Wichita Falls, TX | |
| May 27, 4:05 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Sheppard Afb, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 2630 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
103 WUUS54 KOUN 272022 SVROKC TXC485-272100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 320 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEAST WICHITA COUNTY IN NORTHERN TEXAS * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 320 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF WICHITA FALLS...MOVING SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM WAS DEVELOPING WESTWARD ACROSS WICHITA FALLS AND POSES A DANGER OF DAMAGING HAIL. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SHEPPARD AFB AND WICHITA FALLS HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS AND WIND GUSTS TO AT LEAST 60 MPH ARE LIKELY...ESPECIALLY ACROSS EASTERN SIDES OF WICHITA FALLS. LAT...LON 3385 9875 3386 9843 3404 9842 3406 9850 ANDRA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 49 min |
| May 27, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Clay | 59 min |
| May 27, 1:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Archer | 36 min |
| May 27, 1:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Archer | 35 min |
| May 27, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Clay | 43 min |
| May 27, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer | 32 min |
| May 27, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Clay | 30 min |
| May 27, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Clay, Wichita | 46 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.