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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Norman, OK
NWS Norman, OK issued this tornado warning at Mar 2, 2000, 2:12 PM CST for Clay County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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, 2:12 PM CST (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2000, 2:45 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Norman, OK
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Clay 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 1:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KOUN 022014 TOROKC TXC077-022045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK 212 PM CST THU MAR 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CLAY COUNTY IN NORTHERN TEXAS * UNTIL 245 PM CST * AT 212 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF JOY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SPOTTERS REPORTED ROTATING RAIN CURTAINS SOUTHEAST OF WINDTHORST... SO ANY TORNADO MAY BE OBSCURED BY RAIN. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BELLEVUE...BUFFALO SPRINGS...JOY AND VASHTI. 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 3361 9828 3352 9823 3349 9801 3386 9798 11
The office that day
Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 6:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Knox | 45 min |
| Mar 2, 1:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Clay | 41 min |
| Mar 2, 1:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OUN | Archer, Clay | 45 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.