Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 81
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 10, 2000, 5:15 AM CST for 7 counties in Oklahoma; 30 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 2000, 5:15 AM CST (11:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2000, 11:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Archer County, TX, Clay County, TX, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Montague County, TX, Morris County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Titus County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:19 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 5:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 49 min |
| Mar 10, 7:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 36 min |
| Mar 10, 7:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Red River | 64 min |
| Mar 10, 8:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 44 min |
| Mar 10, 9:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Erath | 45 min |
| Mar 10, 9:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood | 25 min |
| Mar 10, 10:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 60 min |
| Mar 10, 10:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Denton | 42 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 2424 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 9:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Burnet, Collin, Coryell, Dallas and 35 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 10, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Angelina, Chambers, Fort Bend, Grimes, Hardin, Harris and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 10, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco and 42 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.