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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 46

February 22, 200020 counties in Oklahoma; 20 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 22, 2000, 6:00 PM CST for 20 counties in Oklahoma; 20 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Feb 22, 2000, 6:00 PM CST (00:00 UTC)
Expired
Feb 22, 2000, 11:00 PM CST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties

Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Clay County, TX, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Montague County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wise County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 22, 7:07 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJefferson33 min
Feb 22, 7:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGarvin, Stephens45 min
Feb 22, 7:28 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNOklahoma47 min
Feb 22, 9:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin45 min

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 80 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-02-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 217 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-02-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 257 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
257 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
296 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
5.5

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 22, 7:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBandera, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Burnet, Comanche and 15 more5 hr
Feb 22, 10:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bowie and 46 more5 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.