Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 60
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 26, 2000, 1:30 AM CST for 11 counties in Arkansas; 9 parishes in Louisiana; 44 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 26, 2000, 1:30 AM CST (07:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2000, 7:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 64 counties
Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Drew County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Union County, AR, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Anderson County, TX, Angelina County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Falls County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Houston County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Madison County, TX, Marion County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Morris County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Panola County, TX, Polk County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Walker County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:31 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
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 2:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill, Limestone | 41 min |
| Feb 26, 2:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 21 min |
| Feb 26, 2:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River | 26 min |
| Feb 26, 2:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone, Navarro | 53 min |
| Feb 26, 3:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 53 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 984 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 12:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Conway, Crawford, Franklin, Fulton and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 26, 2:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Dallas and 29 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 25, 10:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bosque, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Collin, Comanche and 34 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.