Alert archive / Iowa / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 536
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 5, 2000, 10:30 AM CDT for 39 counties in Iowa; 28 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2000, 10:30 AM CDT (15:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2000, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 67 counties
Adair County, IA, Adams County, IA, Appanoose County, IA, Audubon County, IA, Boone County, IA, Carroll County, IA, Cass County, IA, Clarke County, IA, Crawford County, IA, Dallas County, IA, Davis County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Fremont County, IA, Greene County, IA, Guthrie County, IA, Harrison County, IA, Jasper County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Madison County, IA, Mahaska County, IA, Marion County, IA, Marshall County, IA, Mills County, IA, Monona County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Polk County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Poweshiek County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Story County, IA, Tama County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Union County, IA, Wapello County, IA, Warren County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Antelope County, NE, Boone County, NE, Burt County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Howard County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Madison County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Washington County, NE, Wheeler County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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Warnings issued inside it
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 10:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Dallas, Madison | 33 min |
| Jul 5, 10:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Polk, Warren | 47 min |
| Jul 5, 10:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Madison, Platte | 61 min |
| Jul 5, 11:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope, Boone | 33 min |
| Jul 5, 11:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Stanton | 58 min |
| Jul 5, 11:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Colfax | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 11:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Marion | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 11:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Madison, Platte | 38 min |
| Jul 5, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Marion | 35 min |
| Jul 5, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Mahaska, Monroe | 40 min |
| Jul 5, 12:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge | 49 min |
| Jul 5, 12:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Saunders | 43 min |
| Jul 5, 12:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Wapello | 47 min |
| Jul 5, 1:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Boone, Madison, Stanton | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 1:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Douglas, Washington | 57 min |
| Jul 5, 1:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge, Saunders | 37 min |
| Jul 5, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Sarpy | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 1:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 57 min |
| Jul 5, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison | 40 min |
| Jul 5, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Adams | 43 min |
| Jul 5, 2:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DMX | Adams, Union | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Page | 48 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 945 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1164 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 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.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Louisa and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 5, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Clarke, Davis and 9 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arthur, Box Butte, Chase, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel and 15 more | 5 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.