Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 656
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 7, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT for Big Stone County, Traverse County, Minnesota; 45 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2000, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 47 counties
Big Stone County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Aurora County, SD, Beadle County, SD, Bon Homme County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Brown County, SD, Brule County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Davison County, SD, Day County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Grant County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, Lincoln County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McCook County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Miner County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Potter County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Spink County, SD, Sully County, SD, Tripp County, SD, Turner County, SD, Walworth County, SD, Yankton County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix, Gregory | 51 min |
| Aug 7, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme | 24 min |
| Aug 7, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme | 30 min |
| Aug 7, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Yankton | 33 min |
| Aug 7, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson, Turner | 40 min |
| Aug 7, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Gregory | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook, Minnehaha, Turner | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson | 43 min |
| Aug 7, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook | 51 min |
| Aug 7, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Tripp | 42 min |
| Aug 7, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix, Douglas | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha, Turner | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook | 44 min |
| Aug 7, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Davison | 36 min |
| Aug 7, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson | 33 min |
| Aug 7, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Moody | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Charles Mix | 48 min |
| Aug 7, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson | 42 min |
| Aug 7, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Yankton | 28 min |
| Aug 7, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix | 33 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -242 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1640 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 7, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver and 41 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.