Alert archive / Oklahoma / Tornado Watches in 2000
Tornado Watch 367
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 26, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT for 32 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties
Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Creek County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, McClain County, OK, Noble County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Washington County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Caddo, Washita | 38 min |
| May 26, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Canadian | 27 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, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Caddo | 48 min |
| May 26, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian | 55 min |
| May 26, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Greer, Washita | 59 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, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian | 47 min |
| May 26, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland | 32 min |
| May 26, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Pottawatomie | 34 min |
| May 26, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln, Pottawatomie, Seminole | 47 min |
| May 26, 11:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek | 42 min |
| May 26, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, McClain, Pottawatomie | 47 min |
| May 26, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okmulgee | 46 min |
| May 26, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Okfuskee | 52 min |
| May 26, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hughes, Seminole | 48 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Lamont, OK (KLMN), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 3272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
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 26, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Comanche, Cotton and 9 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Cotton, Garvin and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.