Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches in 2000
Tornado Watch 341
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 24, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT for 17 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Oklahoma; 19 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties
Clark County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 43 min |
| May 24, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 63 min |
| May 24, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 51 min |
| May 24, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray, Roberts | 59 min |
| May 24, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Sherman | 32 min |
| May 24, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 60 min |
| May 24, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford | 43 min |
| May 24, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 55 min |
| May 24, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roberts | 66 min |
| May 24, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 59 min |
| May 24, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 70 min |
| May 24, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford | 20 min |
| May 24, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Ochiltree | 53 min |
| May 24, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Roberts | 68 min |
| May 24, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 66 min |
| May 24, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 57 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 4239 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 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 24, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Crawford and 10 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Texas, 2000Tornado Watches in Kansas, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.