Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2000, 2:42 PM CDT for McCurtain County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 48 min. 3 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
- Apr 23, 2000, 2:42 PM CDT (19:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County McCurtain County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 2:44 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Wright City, OK | |
| Apr 23, 2:54 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Golden, OK | |
| Apr 23, 3:08 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Wright City, OK | Numerous trees toppled and broken. Tornado was described as rope like by chasers in the area during most of its path. A house on the south side of Oak Hill was split in half from a fallen tree. The tornado moved through downtown Broken Bow and through a Wal |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 416 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
550
WFUS54 KSHV 231944
TORSHV
OKC089-232030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA
242 PM CDT SUN APR 23 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
MCCURTAIN COUNTY IN OKLAHOMA
* UNTIL 330 PM CDT
* AT 242 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GLOVER...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
BROKEN BOW AT 300 PM CDT
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
REPEATING...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
FOR...
MCCURTAIN COUNTY IN OKLAHOMA
UNTIL 330 PM CDT.
LAT...LON 3403 9507 3390 9492 3426 9440 3446 9463The office that day
Everything else NWS Shreveport, LA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 58 min |
| Apr 23, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 62 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.