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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Norman, OK

February 22, 2000Archer County, Wichita County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Feb 22, 2000, 5:08 PM CST for Archer County, Wichita County, Texas. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Feb 22, 2000, 5:08 PM CST (23:08 UTC)
Expired: Feb 22, 2000, 5:45 PM CST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Norman, OK
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Archer County, TX, Wichita County, TX

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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 185 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 764 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KOUN 222309
TOROKC
TXC009-485-222345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
508 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWEST ARCHER COUNTY IN NORTHERN TEXAS
  SOUTHWEST WICHITA COUNTY IN NORTHERN TEXAS

* UNTIL 545 PM CST

* AT 508 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE
  STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF DUNDEE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE DUNDEE...KAMAY AND MANKINS AND HOLLIDAY

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 3394 9896 3371 9895 3371 9872 3395 9875

$$
WR

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, 3:48 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OUN	Wilbarger	27 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, 5:42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.