Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 525
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 2, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT for 43 counties in Iowa. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties
Allamakee County, IA, Audubon County, IA, Benton County, IA, Black Hawk County, IA, Boone County, IA, Bremer County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Butler County, IA, Calhoun County, IA, Carroll County, IA, Cedar County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Dallas County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Greene County, IA, Grundy County, IA, Guthrie County, IA, Hamilton County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Hardin County, IA, Humboldt County, IA, Iowa County, IA, Jasper County, IA, Johnson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Linn County, IA, Marshall County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA, Polk County, IA, Poweshiek County, IA, Sac County, IA, Story County, IA, Tama County, IA, Webster County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Wright County, IA
The radar
The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Pocahontas | 55 min |
| Jul 2, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Chickasaw | 54 min |
| Jul 2, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ARX | Allamakee, Winneshiek | 55 min |
| Jul 2, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Floyd | 64 min |
| Jul 2, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Cerro Gordo | 47 min |
| Jul 2, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Pocahontas | 26 min |
| Jul 2, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Chickasaw | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 4:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DMX | Pocahontas | 36 min |
| Jul 2, 5:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Chickasaw | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 5:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ARX | Allamakee | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Webster | 63 min |
| Jul 2, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Allamakee | 55 min |
| Jul 2, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Dallas | 40 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -244 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1180 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 384 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.
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.