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Tornado Watch 364

May 26, 200010 counties in Oklahoma; 34 counties in Texas

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell65 min
May 26, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTHaskell65 min
May 26, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNFoard, Wilbarger41 min
May 26, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Washita52 min
May 26, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTThrockmorton62 min
May 26, 7:07 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCaddo, Washita38 min
May 26, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJackson, Tillman49 min
May 26, 7:22 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTThrockmorton53 min
May 26, 7:35 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCaddo25 min
May 26, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKiowa53 min
May 26, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung67 min
May 26, 7:57 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCaddo48 min
May 26, 8:02 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDYoung28 min
May 26, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham, Greer, Washita59 min
May 26, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDYoung30 min
May 26, 8:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNCaddo3 hr
May 26, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo46 min
May 26, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung58 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 12 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
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

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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
May 25, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche and 15 more6 hr
May 26, 12:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 5 more6 hr
May 26, 12:30 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCraig, Delaware, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher and 10 more6 hr
May 26, 6:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal and 19 more5 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.