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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 640

August 2, 2000Sheridan County, Montana; 21 counties in North Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 2, 2000, 2:00 PM MDT for Sheridan County, Montana; 21 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 2, 2000, 2:00 PM MDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 2000, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties

Sheridan County, MT, Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Burke County, ND, Divide County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Renville County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Ward County, ND, Williams County, ND

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 2:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISWilliams61 min
Aug 2, 3:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISRenville, Ward66 min
Aug 2, 3:46 PM MDTTornado WarningBISRenville34 min
Aug 2, 4:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISDunn59 min
Aug 2, 5:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISDunn, Mercer60 min
Aug 2, 5:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMountrail50 min

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 210 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2000-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2000-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1461 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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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
Aug 1, 7:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCarter, Custer, Daniels, Dawson, Fallon, McCone and 7 more6 hr
Aug 2, 1:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCarter6 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.