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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 208

April 24, 20004 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 24, 2000, 4:00 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 24, 2000, 4:00 PM MDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2000, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 35 counties

Baca County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 24, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	50 min
Apr 24, 4:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	61 min
Apr 24, 4:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	59 min
Apr 24, 4:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	64 min
Apr 24, 5:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	40 min
Apr 24, 5:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Kearny	46 min
Apr 24, 5:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	60 min
Apr 24, 5:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	63 min
Apr 24, 5:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	40 min
Apr 24, 5:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	63 min
Apr 24, 6:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	61 min
Apr 24, 6:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Kearny	42 min
Apr 24, 6:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	61 min
Apr 24, 6:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Texas	63 min
Apr 24, 7:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant	34 min
Apr 24, 7:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree	65 min
Apr 24, 7:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Haskell, Seward	47 min
Apr 24, 8:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford	58 min
Apr 24, 8:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Roberts	56 min

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 208 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1226 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 24, 12:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan and 4 more	6 hr
Apr 23, 7:00 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Nacogdoches, Panola, Shelby	6 hr
Apr 23, 8:30 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Jasper, Newton, Sabine, San Augustine	6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kansas, 2000 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2000 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2000

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.