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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 611

July 22, 2000Bossier Parish, Louisiana; 13 counties in Oklahoma; 21 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 22, 2000, 6:00 AM CDT for Bossier Parish, Louisiana; 13 counties in Oklahoma; 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 22, 2000, 6:00 AM CDT (11:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 2000, 11:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties

Bossier Parish, LA, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Marion County, TX, Morris County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Wood County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 6:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCarter, Johnston48 min
Jul 22, 6:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCoal49 min
Jul 22, 6:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNMurray, Pontotoc36 min
Jul 22, 6:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBryan, Marshall60 min
Jul 22, 6:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAtoka60 min
Jul 22, 6:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJohnston47 min
Jul 22, 7:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAPushmataha54 min
Jul 22, 7:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAChoctaw54 min
Jul 22, 8:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVMcCurtain56 min

The nearest sounding before it

Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2000-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1398 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, Norman, OK at 00:00Z on 2000-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1398 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-131 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1289 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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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
Jul 21, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCimarron, Texas5 hr
Jul 22, 12:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 36 more6 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.