Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches in 2000
Tornado Watch 197
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 23, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT for 19 counties in Arkansas; 9 parishes in Louisiana. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Bradley County, AR, Calhoun County, AR, Clark County, AR, Cleveland County, AR, Columbia County, AR, Dallas County, AR, Garland County, AR, Grant County, AR, Hempstead County, AR, Hot Spring County, AR, Howard County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Miller County, AR, Montgomery County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Ouachita County, AR, Pike County, AR, Saline County, AR, Union County, AR, Bienville Parish, LA, Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, Jackson Parish, LA, Lincoln Parish, LA, Ouachita Parish, LA, Union Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 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
34 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Howard | 59 min |
| Apr 23, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Howard | 62 min |
| Apr 23, 5:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caddo | 59 min |
| Apr 23, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Miller | 25 min |
| Apr 23, 5:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Lafayette | 54 min |
| Apr 23, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier | 66 min |
| Apr 23, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caddo | 66 min |
| Apr 23, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Webster | 32 min |
| Apr 23, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia | 57 min |
| Apr 23, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Webster | 66 min |
| Apr 23, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Miller | 34 min |
| Apr 23, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier | 67 min |
| Apr 23, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Claiborne | 64 min |
| Apr 23, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Montgomery, Yell | 47 min |
| Apr 23, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bienville | 54 min |
| Apr 23, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Claiborne | 67 min |
| Apr 23, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Lafayette | 47 min |
| Apr 23, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 47 min |
| Apr 23, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Caddo | 39 min |
| Apr 23, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Caddo | 60 min |
| Apr 23, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Lincoln | 58 min |
| Apr 23, 7:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bossier | 54 min |
| Apr 23, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Bienville | 65 min |
| Apr 23, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 49 min |
| Apr 23, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 34 min |
| Apr 23, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland | 32 min |
| Apr 23, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Saline | 50 min |
| Apr 23, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 33 min |
| Apr 23, 8:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Jackson, Lincoln, Ouachita | 53 min |
| Apr 23, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant, Pulaski | 47 min |
| Apr 23, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 35 min |
| Apr 23, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Union | 19 min |
| Apr 23, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Union | 15 min |
| Apr 23, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Ouachita | 42 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 416 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
138 WWUS9 KMKC 232020 SEL7 MKC WW 232020 ARZ000-LAZ000-240300- URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 197 STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 320 PM CDT SUN APR 23 2000 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS NORTHERN LOUISIANA EFFECTIVE THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 400 PM UNTIL 1000 PM CDT. ...THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION... DAMAGING TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL TO 3 INCHES IN DIAMETER... THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 60 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF HOT SPRINGS ARKANSAS TO 50 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF SHREVEPORT LOUISIANA. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND 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 194...WW 195...WW 196... DISCUSSION...TORNADIC SUPERCELLS HAVE DEVELOPED INTO SERN OK. AS DRY LINE CONTINUES TO MOVE EWD AHEAD OF SURFACE AND UPPER SYSTEM INTO VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS ACROSS NWRN LA/SWRN AR...TORNADO POTENTIAL WILL CONTINUE EWD INTO SWRN AR AND EXTEND SWD INTO NWRN LA. AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 3 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 26030. ...HALES 344,0920 321,0920 321,0940 344,0940
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Little River, Polk, Scott, Sebastian, Sevier | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberia, Iberville and 14 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 2000Tornado Watches in Louisiana, 2000Every tornado watch in 2000
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.