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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 518

June 30, 200013 counties in Minnesota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 30, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT for 13 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 30, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Beltrami County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Koochiching County, MN, Lake County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 214 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHKoochiching, Saint Louis60 min

The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 107 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, International Fa, MN at 00:00Z on 2000-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 484 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, International Fa, MN at 00:00Z on 2000-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
484 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1831 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
125 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.9

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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
Jul 1, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeltrami, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Lake of the Woods and 1 more6 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.