Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 131
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 28, 2000, 8:00 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 2000, 8:00 PM CST (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2000, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties
Hempstead County, AR, Howard County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Anderson County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Delta County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Panola County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:00 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
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 8:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 46 min |
| Mar 28, 8:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt, Rains | 42 min |
| Mar 28, 8:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 62 min |
| Mar 28, 9:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Morris, Titus | 55 min |
| Mar 28, 9:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Franklin | 55 min |
| Mar 28, 9:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 9:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee | 54 min |
| Mar 28, 10:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass, Marion | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 10:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Rusk | 48 min |
| Mar 28, 10:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 11:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin | 50 min |
| Mar 28, 11:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 38 min |
| Mar 28, 11:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Harrison, Marion | 66 min |
| Mar 29, 12:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins | 44 min |
| Mar 29, 12:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bossier, Caddo | 67 min |
| Mar 29, 12:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Franklin, Morris, Titus | 60 min |
| Mar 29, 12:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Wood | 38 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2380 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 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 29, 1:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Columbia, Lafayette, Miller | 7 hr |
| Mar 29, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Acadia, Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Evangeline and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 28, 6:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Creek, Custer and 17 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 28, 10:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Burleson, Burnet and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 29, 3:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brazos, Burleson and 29 more | 6 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.