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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 416

June 3, 2000Monona County, Woodbury County, Iowa; 19 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 3, 2000, 8:45 PM CDT for Monona County, Woodbury County, Iowa; 19 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 2000, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2000, 2:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties

Monona County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Boone County, NE, Burt County, NE, Butler County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Howard County, NE, Madison County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Wayne County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCedar, Wayne42 min
Jun 3, 9:13 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPierce32 min
Jun 3, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSDWoodbury30 min
Jun 3, 9:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMadison55 min
Jun 3, 9:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMonona40 min
Jun 3, 10:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXPierce58 min
Jun 3, 10:25 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMadison, Pierce50 min
Jun 3, 11:13 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMadison, Platte32 min

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 104 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2000-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2000-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2210 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
362 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 12:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Audubon, Cass, Cherokee, Crawford, Harrison and 9 more6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Nebraska, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, 2000Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2000

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.