Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 361
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2000, 6:00 AM CDT for 25 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2000, 6:00 AM CDT (11:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2000, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McClain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Murray County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK
The radar
The Norman radar (KTLX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:00 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
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 6:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Garvin, Murray | 42 min |
| May 26, 6:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Love | 42 min |
| May 26, 10:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Delaware | 66 min |
| May 26, 10:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sequoyah | 66 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 3120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 718 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.5
- Supercell composite
- 20.5
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, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 5 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, 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.