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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 479

June 22, 200016 counties in North Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 22, 2000, 5:15 PM CDT for 16 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 2000, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Burleigh County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grant County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Kidder County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Morton County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Wells County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcHenry, Pierce, Sheridan, Wells44 min
Jun 22, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISKidder, Wells61 min

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 14 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2000-06-22Temperature 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2000-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 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
1857 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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.