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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 466

June 20, 20004 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 20, 2000, 12:30 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 2000, 12:30 AM CDT (05:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2000, 6:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 46 counties

Adair County, IA, Adams County, IA, Audubon County, IA, Cass County, IA, Dallas County, IA, Fremont County, IA, Guthrie County, IA, Harrison County, IA, Madison County, IA, Mills County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Union County, IA, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Republic County, KS, Washington County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Holt County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Worth County, MO, Burt County, NE, Cass County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Washington County, NE

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 12:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCass, Otoe43 min
Jun 20, 2:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPBrown, Jackson, Nemaha58 min
Jun 20, 2:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXRichardson34 min

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 95 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 2000-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 468 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 90 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
468 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
988 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.1

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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 19, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCPlymouth5 hr
Jun 20, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCLee6 hr
Jun 20, 2:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin and 12 more7 hr
Jun 20, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarber, Butler, Chase, Coffey, Comanche, Cowley and 16 more6 hr
Jun 20, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Linn4 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.