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Tornado Watch 370
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 26, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT for 15 counties in Oklahoma; 19 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2000, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Coal County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Murray County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Clay County, TX, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:33 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Young | 30 min |
| May 26, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 63 min |
| May 26, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 58 min |
| May 26, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague, Wise | 60 min |
| May 26, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 65 min |
| May 26, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 59 min |
| May 26, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 66 min |
| May 26, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan | 45 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 3095 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1301 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 11.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
741 WWUS9 KMKC 270108 SEL0 MKC WW 270108 OKZ000-TXZ000-270700- URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 370 STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 808 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS EFFECTIVE THIS FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING FROM 830 PM UNTIL 200 AM CDT. TORNADOES...HAIL TO 3 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 95 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT WORTH TEXAS TO 45 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF ARDMORE OKLAHOMA. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 364. WATCH NUMBER 364 WILL NOT BE IN EFFECT AFTER 830 PM CDT. CONTINUE...WW 362...WW 365...WW 366...WW 367...WW 368...WW 369... DISCUSSION...RIGHT MOVING SUPERCELL CONTINUES EWD ACROSS YOUNG COUNTY TX WITH SEVERAL STORMS ALSO OVER SWRN OK. AIR MASS VERY UNSTABLE WITH CAPES OF 4500 J/KG. LOW LEVEL STORM RELATIVE FLOW IS ESELY AT 10-20 KT WITH DEEP LAYER SHEAR OF 40-50 KT INDICATING THAT STORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS AREA NEXT FEW HOURS. AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 3 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 600. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 26035. ...MCCARTHY 345,0953 324,0955 324,0990 345,0990
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Creek and 26 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 |
| May 27, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Coleman, Comanche, Concho, Kimble, McCulloch and 8 more | 6 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.