Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 645

August 4, 20008 counties in Montana; 11 counties in North Dakota; Harding County, South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 4, 2000, 5:00 PM MDT for 8 counties in Montana; 11 counties in North Dakota; Harding County, South Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 4, 2000, 5:00 PM MDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 2000, 10:00 PM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Carter County, MT, Custer County, MT, Dawson County, MT, Fallon County, MT, Powder River County, MT, Richland County, MT, Sheridan County, MT, Wibaux County, MT, Billings County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Burke County, ND, Divide County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Williams County, ND, Harding County, SD

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 4, 6:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDawson58 min
Aug 4, 6:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISDivide, Williams56 min
Aug 4, 7:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWRichland63 min
Aug 4, 7:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISDivide, McKenzie, Williams59 min
Aug 4, 7:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurke65 min

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 281 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 2000-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 331 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 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
331 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-280 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1065 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
92 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
Aug 4, 5:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAurora, Bennett, Brown, Brule, Buffalo, Campbell and 23 more5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Dakota, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Montana, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2000Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2000

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.