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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2000, 8:38 PM CST for Ellis County, Harper County, Oklahoma. 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 24, 2000, 8:38 PM CST (02:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2000, 9:15 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK
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 24, 4:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2390 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 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 250240
TOROKC
OKC045-059-250315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
838 PM CST THU FEB 24 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN ELLIS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA
HARPER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 915 PM CST
* AT 838 PM CST...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF
CATESBY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUFFALO...CATESBY...LAVERNE AND
MAY
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 3675 10002 3642 10000 3643 9964 3660 9963
3666 9946 3690 9962
WRThe office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 8:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OUN | Ellis | 39 min |
| Feb 24, 8:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Roger Mills | 47 min |
| Feb 24, 9:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 9:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OUN | Harper | 34 min |
| Feb 24, 9:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Harper | 40 min |
| Feb 24, 9:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woods | 40 min |
| Feb 24, 9:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Roger Mills | 41 min |
| Feb 24, 10:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harmon | 41 min |
| Feb 24, 10:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Greer | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 10:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 11:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa, Washita | 45 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.