Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 436
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 12, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT for Polk County, Minnesota; 34 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Polk County, MN, Adams County, ND, Barnes County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Cass County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Grant County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Steele County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Traill County, ND, Wells County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 28 min |
| Jun 12, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Nelson | 30 min |
| Jun 12, 10:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Nelson | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Wells | 27 min |
| Jun 12, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Morton | 51 min |
| Jun 12, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Hettinger | 56 min |
| Jun 12, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 44 min |
| Jun 12, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Morton | 43 min |
| Jun 12, 11:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Nelson | 44 min |
| Jun 13, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Griggs | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 12:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Eddy, Grand Forks, Nelson | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Steele | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 2:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Cass | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 3:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 46 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 13 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
- 1445 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1745 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
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 13, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Dickey, Eddy and 21 more | 6 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.