Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 444
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 13, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT for 27 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties
Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Cass County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Towner County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND, Wells County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 4:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 24 min |
| Jun 13, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Kidder, Wells | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 26 min |
| Jun 13, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Foster, Stutsman | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Griggs | 29 min |
| Jun 13, 8:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BIS | Foster, Wells | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 925 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 12, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Barnes, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Cass and 28 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.