Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 349
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 25, 2000, 12:00 AM CDT for 27 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2000, 12:00 AM CDT (05:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties
Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Creek County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, McClain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Noble County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:59 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
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 44 min |
| May 25, 12:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 2 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 4553 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1645 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 20.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron | 5 hr |
| May 25, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jackson | 5 hr |
| May 25, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Harmon, Texas | 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.