Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 684
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 13, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT for Kittson County, Minnesota; 31 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT (04:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2000, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties
Kittson County, MN, Adams County, ND, Benson County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Grant County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Kidder County, ND, Logan County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Stark County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Towner County, ND, Walsh County, ND, Wells County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:51 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
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Morton | 46 min |
| Aug 14, 1:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Pembina, Walsh | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 3:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 39 min |
| Aug 14, 4:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Griggs, Steele | 43 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -452 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2518 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 434 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 14, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Beltrami, Carlton, Cass, Clearwater, Crow Wing and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 14, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin and 17 more | 5 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.