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Tornado Watch 780

November 5, 20006 parishes in Louisiana; 53 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 5, 2000, 8:00 PM CST for 6 parishes in Louisiana; 53 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 5, 2000, 8:00 PM CST (02:00 UTC)
Expired: Nov 6, 2000, 2:00 AM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 59 counties

Bossier Parish, LA, Caddo Parish, LA, Claiborne Parish, LA, De Soto Parish, LA, Red River Parish, LA, Webster Parish, LA, Anderson County, TX, Angelina County, TX, Aransas County, TX, Austin County, TX, Bee County, TX, Brazoria County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Colorado County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Harris County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Houston County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Leon County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Madison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Matagorda County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Panola County, TX, Polk County, TX, Refugio County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Tyler County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Wharton County, TX, Wood County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

26 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 5, 8:34 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca and 1 more	4 hr
Nov 5, 9:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Fayette, Lavaca	54 min
Nov 5, 9:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Austin, Colorado, Washington, Wharton	60 min
Nov 5, 9:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson	60 min
Nov 5, 10:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Fort Bend, Waller, Wharton	64 min
Nov 5, 10:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Grimes, Madison	64 min
Nov 5, 10:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Harris, Montgomery	46 min
Nov 5, 10:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Walker	46 min
Nov 5, 10:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	HGX	Grimes, Montgomery, Walker	50 min
Nov 5, 11:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	45 min
Nov 5, 11:04 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Brazos, Grimes, Madison, Walker	3 hr
Nov 5, 11:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston, Trinity	53 min
Nov 5, 11:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Polk, San Jacinto	53 min
Nov 5, 11:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	HGX	Montgomery, San Jacinto	60 min
Nov 5, 11:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	HGX	Walker	45 min
Nov 5, 11:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, Harris	65 min
Nov 5, 11:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Liberty	65 min
Nov 5, 11:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Fort Bend	65 min
Nov 5, 11:52 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bastrop, DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca, Lee	3 hr
Nov 6, 12:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Jackson, Matagorda, Wharton	51 min
Nov 6, 12:13 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LCH	Hardin, Tyler	62 min
Nov 6, 12:18 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Houston, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity	102 min
Nov 6, 12:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Polk	45 min
Nov 6, 12:48 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Austin, Burleson, Colorado, Washington	3 hr
Nov 6, 1:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Shelby	52 min
Nov 6, 1:42 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Madison, San Jacinto, Walker	2 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 238 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -301 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1211 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 6, 12:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis	5 hr
Nov 6, 2:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Plaquemines, Saint Bernard	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.