Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 63
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 2, 2000, 2:00 AM CST for 4 counties in Oklahoma; 54 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2000, 2:00 AM CST (08:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2000, 8:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 58 counties
Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terry County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:03 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
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 2:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 24 min |
| Mar 2, 2:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson | 32 min |
| Mar 2, 2:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Taylor | 26 min |
| Mar 2, 2:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 21 min |
| Mar 2, 2:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 62 min |
| Mar 2, 2:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Jones, Shackelford | 68 min |
| Mar 2, 2:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 31 min |
| Mar 2, 3:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 37 min |
| Mar 2, 4:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent | 44 min |
| Mar 2, 4:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 54 min |
| Mar 2, 4:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 50 min |
| Mar 2, 5:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 6:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Knox | 45 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2479 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS9 KMKC 020737 SEL3 MKC WW 020737 OKZ000-TXZ000-021400- URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 63 STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 137 AM CST THU MAR 2 2000 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA NORTHWESTERN TEXAS EFFECTIVE THIS THURSDAY MORNING FROM 200 AM UNTIL 800 AM CST. HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 110 STATUTE MILES NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 75 MILES WEST OF PLAINVIEW TEXAS TO 80 MILES NORTHEAST OF ABILENE TEXAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. OTHER WATCH INFORMATION... CONTINUE...WW 62... DISCUSSION...CONVECTIVE CLUSTER WILL INCREASE AS UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL BE LIFTED AHEAD OF APPROACHING UPPER TROUGH AND ALONG 50 KT LOW LEVEL JET AXIS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MAINLY ELEVATED AND NORTH OF WARM FRONT INDICATING PRIMARY THREAT OF LARGE HAIL. AVIATION...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 50 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 24040. ...ROGASH ;354,1030 344,0984 313,0984 323,1030;
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 1:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran and 22 more | 5 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.