Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Shreveport, LA
NWS Shreveport, LA issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2000, 3:43 PM CDT for McCurtain County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 2000, 3:43 PM CDT (20:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2000, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Shreveport, LA
- Area
- Whole counties
County McCurtain County, OK
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Idabel, OK | Numerous trees were toppled and stripped. No homes or structures were in the path of this tornado. |
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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 205 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.
131 WFUS54 KSHV 232045 TORSHV OKC089-232145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 343 PM CDT SUN APR 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MCCURTAIN COUNTY IN OKLAHOMA * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 343 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF IDABEL...MOVING EAST NEAR 20 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE IDABEL COMMUNITY...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. DURING A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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... SOUTHERN MCCURTAIN COUNTY IN OKLAHOMA UNTIL 445 PM CDT.
The 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, 2:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 48 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.