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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 164

April 11, 200031 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 11, 2000, 2:30 PM CDT for 31 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 11, 2000, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired
Apr 11, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties

Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wise County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 11, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto46 min
Apr 11, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack, Wise64 min
Apr 11, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson48 min
Apr 11, 5:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDGrayson3 hr
Apr 11, 5:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDPalo Pinto3 hr
Apr 11, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker44 min
Apr 11, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown54 min
Apr 11, 6:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker36 min
Apr 11, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown62 min
Apr 11, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant48 min
Apr 11, 7:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDTarrant3 hr
Apr 11, 7:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDEllis, Johnson, Navarro3 hr
Apr 11, 7:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown66 min

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 110 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-04-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1027 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-04-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 195 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1027 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
506 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
195 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.3

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 11, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBorden, Brewster, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 29 more5 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.