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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 538

July 5, 200015 counties in Iowa; Doniphan County, Kansas; 20 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 5, 2000, 3:00 PM CDT for 15 counties in Iowa; Doniphan County, Kansas; 20 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 2000, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties

Adair County, IA, Adams County, IA, Appanoose County, IA, Cass County, IA, Clarke County, IA, Davis County, IA, Decatur County, IA, Lucas County, IA, Monroe County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Ringgold County, IA, Taylor County, IA, Union County, IA, Wayne County, IA, Doniphan County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 3:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXMercer59 min
Jul 5, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXTaylor41 min
Jul 5, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXNodaway66 min
Jul 5, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXWorth65 min
Jul 5, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXGentry, Harrison63 min
Jul 5, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXCaldwell, Clinton, Livingston39 min
Jul 5, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAXLivingston31 min

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 196 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2000-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 945 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2000-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 181 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
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

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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 5, 10:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Carroll and 33 more5 hr
Jul 5, 1:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDes Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Louisa and 2 more5 hr
Jul 5, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman and 1 more5 hr
Jul 5, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Audrain, Boone, Caldwell, Callaway, Carroll and 27 more4 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.