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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 217
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 29, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT for 7 counties in Oklahoma; 27 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Carter County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Love County, OK, Murray County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Knox County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Jones | 65 min |
| Apr 29, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 45 min |
| Apr 29, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 64 min |
| Apr 29, 9:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Haskell | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 52 min |
| Apr 29, 9:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Foard, Knox | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 77 min |
| Apr 30, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 39 min |
| Apr 30, 12:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor | 39 min |
| Apr 30, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Throckmorton | 65 min |
| Apr 30, 12:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 56 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 897 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1531 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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 30, 12:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Ellis, Greer, Harmon, Harper and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 30, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Custer and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Jackson, Tillman | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Haskell, Jack and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 30, 4:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Henderson and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 30, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho, Eastland and 10 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.