Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches in 2000
Tornado Watch 232
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 3, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT for 36 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Anderson County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Madison County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Mills County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 38 min |
| May 3, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 62 min |
| May 3, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood | 56 min |
| May 3, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 41 min |
| May 3, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 60 min |
| May 3, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Somervell | 57 min |
| May 3, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 49 min |
| May 3, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Somervell | 63 min |
| May 3, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 53 min |
| May 3, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 48 min |
| May 3, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 67 min |
| May 3, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 29 min |
| May 3, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone | 53 min |
| May 3, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Tarrant | 62 min |
| May 3, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone | 55 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1089 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison and 10 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
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.