Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 101
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 18, 2000, 2:15 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 18, 2000, 2:15 PM CST (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2000, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 71 counties
Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Jefferson County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Union County, AR, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Natchitoches Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Sabine Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, McCurtain County, OK, Anderson County, TX, Angelina County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Houston County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Leon County, TX, Madison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Morris County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Newton County, TX, Panola County, TX, Polk County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Tyler County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Walker County, TX, Washington County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 2:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Rusk, Smith | 29 min |
| Mar 18, 2:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Madison, Walker | 50 min |
| Mar 18, 2:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Tyler | 63 min |
| Mar 18, 2:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison | 45 min |
| Mar 18, 2:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pike | 34 min |
| Mar 18, 2:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Rusk | 31 min |
| Mar 18, 3:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Shelby | 54 min |
| Mar 18, 3:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo | 37 min |
| Mar 18, 3:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Panola | 57 min |
| Mar 18, 3:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass | 56 min |
| Mar 18, 3:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo | 31 min |
| Mar 18, 4:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Shelby | 28 min |
| Mar 18, 4:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier | 51 min |
| Mar 18, 4:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper | 37 min |
| Mar 18, 4:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | De Soto | 56 min |
| Mar 18, 4:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Shelby | 26 min |
| Mar 18, 4:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Newton | 53 min |
| Mar 18, 4:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Webster | 46 min |
| Mar 18, 4:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun | 30 min |
| Mar 18, 4:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LCH | Jasper | 31 min |
| Mar 18, 5:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Red River | 57 min |
| Mar 18, 5:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Bradley | 63 min |
| Mar 18, 6:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 35 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 772 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 3:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot, Desha, Drew | 5 hr |
| Mar 18, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Columbia, Lafayette, Miller, Union | 7 hr |
| Mar 18, 11:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aransas, Austin, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers and 17 more | 5 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.