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Tornado Watch 226

April 30, 20007 counties in Oklahoma; 10 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 30, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT for 7 counties in Oklahoma; 10 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 30, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Carter County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Love County, OK, Murray County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Clay County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Jack County, TX, Montague County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 30, 7:05 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDJack55 min
Apr 30, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDYoung30 min
Apr 30, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton34 min
Apr 30, 7:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJack, Young3 hr
Apr 30, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung44 min
Apr 30, 7:56 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDJack64 min
Apr 30, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNClay30 min
Apr 30, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMontague60 min
Apr 30, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise53 min
Apr 30, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCooke51 min

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 138 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-05-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2110 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-05-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 307 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2110 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
844 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
307 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
394 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
3.9
Supercell composite
30.2

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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
Apr 30, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBosque, Brown, Coleman, Collin, Comanche, Concho and 26 more5 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Texas, 2000Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 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.