Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches in 2000
Tornado Watch 364
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 26, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT for 10 counties in Oklahoma; 34 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
Beckham County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Childress County, TX, Clay County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Young County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 65 min |
| May 26, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Haskell | 65 min |
| May 26, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Wilbarger | 41 min |
| May 26, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Washita | 52 min |
| May 26, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 62 min |
| May 26, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Caddo, Washita | 38 min |
| May 26, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson, Tillman | 49 min |
| May 26, 7:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 53 min |
| May 26, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Caddo | 25 min |
| May 26, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa | 53 min |
| May 26, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 67 min |
| May 26, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Caddo | 48 min |
| May 26, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Young | 28 min |
| May 26, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Greer, Washita | 59 min |
| May 26, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Young | 30 min |
| May 26, 8:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Caddo | 3 hr |
| May 26, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo | 46 min |
| May 26, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 58 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 253 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -428 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1891 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 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 25, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche and 15 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 12:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Craig, Delaware, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal and 19 more | 5 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.