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Tornado Watch 765
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Oct 28, 2000, 3:15 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Oklahoma; 60 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 28, 2000, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 61 counties
Jefferson County, OK, Archer County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Borden County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mills County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Montague County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Real County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Young County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 3:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos, Reagan, Terrell | 3 hr |
| Oct 28, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 72 min |
| Oct 28, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens | 40 min |
| Oct 28, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 62 min |
| Oct 28, 3:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 3 hr |
| Oct 28, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 47 min |
| Oct 28, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Wilbarger | 51 min |
| Oct 28, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Sutton | 24 min |
| Oct 28, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Sutton | 63 min |
| Oct 28, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 57 min |
| Oct 28, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Kimble | 53 min |
| Oct 28, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 44 min |
| Oct 28, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 48 min |
| Oct 28, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 56 min |
| Oct 28, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble | 35 min |
| Oct 28, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 49 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 878 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
938 WWUS9 KMKC 282002 SEL5 SEL5 MKC WW 281951 TXZ000-290200- URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 765 STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 251 PM CDT SAT OCT 28 2000 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN TEXAS EFFECTIVE THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 315 PM UNTIL 900 PM CDT. TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 105 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 90 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF SANDERSON TEXAS TO 35 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF WICHITA FALLS TEXAS. 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 764. WATCH NUMBER 764 WILL NOT BE IN EFFECT AFTER 315 PM CDT. CONTINUE...WW 763... DISCUSSION...A FEW SUPERCELLS EXPECTED TO PERSIST ALONG BROKEN SQUALL LINES CROSSING WRN AND NRN TX THIS EVENING...WHERE SHEAR VECTORS WILL SIGNIFICANTLY LENGTHEN AS NM SHORTWAVE CONTINUES EWD...AND 60 KT MID LEVEL FLOW BECOMES WSWLY. SUFFICIENT INSTABILITY APPEARS PRESENT /PER 18Z MAF SOUNDING/ TO SUPPORT LARGE HAIL/SMALL SCALE BOWS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 22040. ...CORFIDI 340,0971 293,0991 293,1024 340,1005
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 9:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 6 hr |
| Oct 28, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 28, 11:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Dawson and 25 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.