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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 382

May 27, 200010 counties in Arkansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma; 25 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 27, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT for 10 counties in Arkansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma; 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 40 counties

Garland County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Howard County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Pike County, AR, Polk County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Choctaw County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Delta County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wood County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Fannin	30 min
May 27, 6:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Fannin	3 hr
May 27, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Lamar	65 min
May 27, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	LeFlore	29 min
May 27, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	41 min
May 27, 6:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Delta	26 min
May 27, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis	52 min
May 27, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins	66 min
May 27, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hopkins	36 min
May 27, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Franklin, Wood	40 min
May 27, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Camp, Titus	33 min
May 27, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery	36 min
May 27, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Smith, Upshur	44 min
May 27, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Morris	32 min
May 27, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg	39 min
May 27, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Rusk	62 min
May 27, 8:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Garland, Pulaski, Saline	105 min

The nearest sounding before it

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 1468 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -134 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 731 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 242 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 2.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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
May 26, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 26 more	6 hr
May 27, 10:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Independence and 7 more	5 hr
May 26, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Creek and 26 more	6 hr
May 26, 8:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton and 9 more	6 hr
May 27, 2:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Cotton, Garvin and 7 more	6 hr
May 27, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brown, Coleman, Comanche, Concho, Kimble, McCulloch and 8 more	6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2000 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.