Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 2000, 1:08 PM CST for Jackson County, Kiowa County, Tillman County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 47 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
- Mar 2, 2000, 1:08 PM CST (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2000, 1:55 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Tillman County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 1:40 PM CST | Hail 1 | Snyder, OK |
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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2225 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 545 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KOUN 021909 SVROKC OKC065-075-141-021955- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 108 PM CST THU MAR 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EXTREME EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA SOUTHERN KIOWA COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA NORTHERN TILLMAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 155 PM CST * AT 108 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF HEADRICK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE COOPERTON...HEADRICK...MOUNTAIN PARK...ROOSEVELT...SNYDER...TOM STEED RESERVOIR AND WARREN HAIQL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS IS LIEKLY AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. LAT...LON 3491 9927 3452 9916 3456 9884 3503 9880 MILLER
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 Norman, OK wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 2, 10:17 AM CST, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 10:17 AM CST, 2 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 1015AM CST THU MAR 2 2000 MADE A FEW ADJUSTMENT TO FORECAST THIS MORNING...BUT THINGS SEEM TO BE HANDLED WELL ALREADY. WITH ANOTHER ROUND OF WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...KEPT CATEGORICAL WORDING IN ZONE FORECASTS ALL AREAS. BEGINNINGS OF NEW ACTIVITY ALREADY DEVELOPING ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN TEXAS PANHANDLE. THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS STILL APPARENT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH ELEVATED LARGE HAILERS POSSIBLE WITH NEXT ROUND OF STORMS. WITH PROGD SHEAR PROFILE...AM CONCERNED ABOUT ANY CONVECTION IN WARM SECTOR (NORTH TEXAS) TRAVERSING THE SURFACE WARM FRONT INTO SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF CWA...SO WILL WATCH THIS CLOSELY. UPDATED THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK WILL BE ISSUED AT NORMAL TIME...1230 PM. WILL BE PERFORMING AN 18Z SOUNDING PER REQUEST FROM SPC. TEMPS SORT OF A GUESSING GAME TODAY...EXCEPT FOR NORTHERN AND WESTERN AREAS WHERE NEAR STEADY TEMPS SHOULD BE SEEN. SUCKER HOLES IN CLOUDS WILL ALLOW ISOLATED LOCATIONS TO WARM QUICKLY...BUT WILL JUST TRY TO GIVE A RANGE. FCSTID = 11 .OUN... OK...NONE. TX...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 2, 12:30 PM CST, 38 minutes before
OKZ004>048-050>052-TXZ083>090-022030- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 1230 PM CST THU MAR 2 2000 THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON OVER PORTIONS OF WESTERN NORTH TEXAS...AND THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA. THIS MODERATE RISK COVERS THE AREA EAST OF A HOBART TO ARCHER CITY TEXAS LINE...AND SOUTH OF A HOBART...TO SULPHUR...TO ATOKA LINE. SURROUNDING THE MODERATE RISK IS A SLIGHT RISK AREA FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR ALL AREAS SOUTH OF A WOODWARD TO STILLWATER LINE. DISCUSSION...AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM LOCATED OVER WEST TEXAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST THROUGH TONIGHT. AT THE SURFACE...A LOW PRESSURE AREA NEAR CHILDRESS...WITH A WARM FRONT EXTENDING SOUTHEAST FROM THE LOW...AND A DRYLINE EXTENDING SOUTH...WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THE EVENING AS THE LOW MOVES EAST. AS THE UPPER AND LOWER LEVEL STORMS INTERACT WITH INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE AIR...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS PORTIONS OF WESTERN NORTH TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA...ESPECIALLY IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA. WITH STRONG SHEAR PROFILES THROUGHOUT THE ATMOSPHERE...SUPERCELL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. HOWEVER...THE THREAT OF TORNADOES WILL EXIST IN THE MODERATE RISK AREA...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND JUST NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND STORM SPOTTERS...ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND WESTERN NORTH TEXAS...SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. 11
Local storm report, Mar 2, 1:01 PM CST, 7 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
101 PM CST THU MAR 02 2000
TIME (CST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1258 PM AL[TUS OK .88 INCH HAIL
03/02/00 JACKSON EOC REPORT
JThe office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 12:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 30 min |
| Mar 2, 1:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa | 45 min |
| Mar 2, 1:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 45 min |
| Mar 2, 2:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Comanche | 52 min |
| Mar 2, 3:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Oklahoma | 46 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.