Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 359
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2000, 12:00 AM CDT for 11 counties in Oklahoma; 11 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2000, 12:00 AM CDT (05:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2000, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties
Alfalfa County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 12:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Alfalfa | 30 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 1927 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 979 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
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 25, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche and 15 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 12:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Craig, Delaware, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal and 19 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon 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.