Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 129
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 28, 2000, 6:45 PM CST for 23 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 2000, 6:45 PM CST (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2000, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Creek County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Grady County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, McClain County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Washita County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 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
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 7:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Cleveland, Oklahoma | 45 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 2128 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 380 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 501 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 28, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 5 hr |
| Mar 28, 10:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 7 more | 6 hr |
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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.