Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 426
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 11, 2000, 3:00 PM MDT for 16 counties in North Dakota; 6 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2000, 3:00 PM MDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2000, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties
Adams County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Stark County, ND, Ward County, ND, Corson County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Meade County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Ziebach County, SD
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 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
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 3:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte, Meade | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 3:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Ward | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 4:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Hettinger | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 4:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Morton | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 4:14 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Renville, Ward | 31 min |
| Jun 11, 4:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean, Mercer, Oliver | 54 min |
| Jun 11, 4:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Ziebach | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 4:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Corson | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 4:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 62 min |
| Jun 11, 4:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Bottineau, McHenry, Renville | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 4:53 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Ward | 37 min |
| Jun 11, 5:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, McLean, Oliver | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 5:38 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | McLean, Oliver | 32 min |
| Jun 11, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, McHenry | 60 min |
| Jun 11, 6:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Burleigh, McLean | 32 min |
| Jun 11, 6:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mercer, Oliver | 64 min |
| Jun 11, 6:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, McHenry, Pierce | 27 min |
| Jun 11, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean, Sheridan | 61 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1248 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benson, Bottineau, Cavalier, Eddy, Foster, Griggs and 9 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Dakota, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 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.