Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 535
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 4, 2000, 8:15 PM MDT for 16 counties in North Dakota; 15 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 2000, 8:15 PM MDT (02:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2000, 2:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Adams County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Stark County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Campbell County, SD, Corson County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Meade County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Potter County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Walworth County, SD, Ziebach County, SD
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:19 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
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 8:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 60 min |
| Jul 4, 8:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | LaMoure | 35 min |
| Jul 4, 8:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 60 min |
| Jul 4, 8:38 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Meade | 22 min |
| Jul 4, 8:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, Stark | 53 min |
| Jul 4, 8:58 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Meade | 32 min |
| Jul 4, 9:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Dickey, LaMoure | 54 min |
| Jul 4, 9:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 17 min |
| Jul 4, 9:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Ziebach | 67 min |
| Jul 4, 9:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Hettinger | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 10:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dickey, LaMoure | 53 min |
| Jul 4, 10:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Stanley | 39 min |
| Jul 4, 11:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 43 min |
| Jul 5, 12:28 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes | 32 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 1565 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 683 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Harding, Jackson and 4 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.