Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 715
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 28, 2000, 5:30 AM CDT for 11 counties in Minnesota; 14 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 28, 2000, 5:30 AM CDT (10:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2000, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Beltrami County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Benson County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Steele County, ND, Towner County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND, Wells County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:40 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
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Ramsey | 45 min |
| Aug 28, 6:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Eddy | 31 min |
| Aug 28, 6:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Nelson, Walsh | 31 min |
| Aug 28, 6:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Eddy, Nelson, Ramsey | 46 min |
| Aug 28, 6:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Walsh | 46 min |
| Aug 28, 7:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier | 45 min |
| Aug 28, 7:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Towner | 30 min |
| Aug 28, 8:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier | 32 min |
| Aug 28, 8:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ramsey | 32 min |
| Aug 28, 8:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier, Walsh | 32 min |
| Aug 28, 9:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pembina | 31 min |
| Aug 28, 9:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson | 28 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 262 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
- 2086 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1409 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
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 28, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson and 22 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North 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.