Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 640
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 2:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Williams | 61 min |
| Aug 2, 3:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Renville, Ward | 66 min |
| Aug 2, 3:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Renville | 34 min |
| Aug 2, 4:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn | 59 min |
| Aug 2, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, Mercer | 60 min |
| Aug 2, 5:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mountrail | 50 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.
- 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carter, Custer, Daniels, Dawson, Fallon, McCone and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 1:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carter | 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.