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Tornado Watch 49
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Feb 24, 2000, 4:30 PM CST for 18 counties in Oklahoma; 36 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2000, 4:30 PM CST (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2000, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 54 counties
Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Baylor County, TX, Borden County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
35 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 6:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray, Roberts | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 6:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | AMA | Roberts | 31 min |
| Feb 24, 6:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb | 42 min |
| Feb 24, 6:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 7:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 60 min |
| Feb 24, 7:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 47 min |
| Feb 24, 7:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd, Lubbock | 27 min |
| Feb 24, 7:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Roberts | 39 min |
| Feb 24, 7:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 28 min |
| Feb 24, 7:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd | 49 min |
| Feb 24, 8:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 2 hr |
| Feb 24, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 8:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 28 min |
| Feb 24, 8:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley | 25 min |
| Feb 24, 8:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OUN | Ellis | 39 min |
| Feb 24, 8:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Roger Mills | 47 min |
| Feb 24, 8:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 17 min |
| Feb 24, 8:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 28 min |
| Feb 24, 8:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall, Motley | 46 min |
| Feb 24, 8:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 8:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OUN | Ellis, Harper | 37 min |
| Feb 24, 8:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 62 min |
| Feb 24, 9:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts | 43 min |
| Feb 24, 9:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 9:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | OUN | Harper | 34 min |
| Feb 24, 9:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Harper | 40 min |
| Feb 24, 9:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woods | 40 min |
| Feb 24, 9:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Wheeler | 47 min |
| Feb 24, 9:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Roger Mills | 41 min |
| Feb 24, 9:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 26 min |
| Feb 24, 9:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Hardeman | 49 min |
| Feb 24, 10:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harmon | 41 min |
| Feb 24, 10:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Greer | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 10:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 11:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kiowa, Washita | 45 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 4039 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 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.
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.