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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Feb 22, 2000, 3:48 PM CST for Wilbarger County, Texas. It was in force for 27 min. 2 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
- Feb 22, 2000, 3:48 PM CST (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2000, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Wilbarger County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 3:58 PM CST | Hail 1 | Vernon, TX | Hail between the size of dimes and quarters fell on US 283 just north of Vernon for about 12 minutes. |
| Feb 22, 4:05 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Vernon, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -444 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 626 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KOUN 222149 TOROKC TXC487-222215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 348 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN WILBARGER COUNTY IN NORTHERN TEXAS * UNTIL 415 PM CST * AT 348 PM CST...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 5 MILES WEST OF VERNON...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE VERNON TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3423 9953 3410 9937 3415 9918 3435 9939 ANDRA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 2:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Hardeman | 42 min |
| Feb 22, 2:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Hardeman | 35 min |
| Feb 22, 3:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 48 min |
| Feb 22, 3:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Hardeman, Wilbarger | 50 min |
| Feb 22, 4:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 47 min |
| Feb 22, 5:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wichita, Wilbarger | 43 min |
| Feb 22, 5:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OUN | Archer, Wichita | 37 min |
| Feb 22, 5:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wichita | 38 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.