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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Norman, OK

March 2, 2000Archer County, Clay County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 2, 2000, 1:30 PM CST for Archer County, Clay County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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
Mar 2, 2000, 1:30 PM CST (19:30 UTC)
Expired
Mar 2, 2000, 2:15 PM CST
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Archer County, TX, Clay County, TX

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 2, 1:15 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 127 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-03-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-03-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 244 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1114 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
209 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 021931
TOROKC
TXC009-077-022015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
130 PM CST THU MAR 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN ARCHER COUNTY IN NORTHERN TEXAS
  SOUTHERN CLAY COUNTY IN NORTHERN TEXAS

* UNTIL 215 PM CST

* AT 130 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE
  STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WINDTHORST...MOVING EAST AT
  35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BELLEVUE...BLUEGROVE...BUFFALO   
SPRINGS...JOY...SCOTLAND...VASHTI AND WINDTHORST.

TAKE COVER NOW. ABAN-DON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. MOVE TO AN
INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3361 9859 3346 9853 3349 9833 3348 9800
          3375 9799

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 2, 6:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNFoard, Knox45 min
Mar 2, 1:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher, Clay41 min
Mar 2, 2:12 PM CSTTornado WarningOUNClay33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.