Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 659
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 7, 2000, 11:15 PM CDT for 22 counties in Iowa; 10 counties in Minnesota; 24 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2000, 11:15 PM CDT (04:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2000, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 56 counties
Allamakee County, IA, Benton County, IA, Black Hawk County, IA, Bremer County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Butler County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Dubuque County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Grundy County, IA, Hardin County, IA, Howard County, IA, Jackson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Mitchell County, IA, Winneshiek County, IA, Worth County, IA, Dodge County, MN, Fillmore County, MN, Goodhue County, MN, Houston County, MN, Mower County, MN, Olmsted County, MN, Steele County, MN, Wabasha County, MN, Washington County, MN, Winona County, MN, Barron County, WI, Buffalo County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Clark County, WI, Crawford County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Grant County, WI, Jackson County, WI, Juneau County, WI, La Crosse County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Monroe County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Richland County, WI, Rusk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI, Taylor County, WI, Trempealeau County, WI, Vernon County, WI, Wood County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:16 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
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Worth | 40 min |
| Aug 8, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Buffalo | 28 min |
| Aug 8, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Mitchell | 57 min |
| Aug 8, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Saint Croix | 44 min |
| Aug 8, 12:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Clark | 38 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 1134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
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 8, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashland, Bayfield, Brown, Calumet, Chippewa, Clark and 22 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Wisconsin, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, 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.