Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 195
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 23, 2000, 1:45 PM CDT for 21 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 2000, 1:45 PM CDT (18:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Kay County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Tulsa radar (KINX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee | 49 min |
| Apr 23, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Tulsa | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 61 min |
| Apr 23, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 61 min |
| Apr 23, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Muskogee | 50 min |
| Apr 23, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln | 59 min |
| Apr 23, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Washington | 58 min |
| Apr 23, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Sequoyah | 57 min |
| Apr 23, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 64 min |
| Apr 23, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig | 50 min |
| Apr 23, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okmulgee | 48 min |
| Apr 23, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington | 40 min |
| Apr 23, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa | 50 min |
| Apr 23, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 49 min |
| Apr 23, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 39 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- -265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1004 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 340 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain and 4 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.