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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 737

September 13, 200047 counties in Iowa

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 13, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT for 47 counties in Iowa. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 13, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)
Expired
Sep 14, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 47 counties

Audubon County, IA, Benton County, IA, Black Hawk County, IA, Boone County, IA, Bremer County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Butler County, IA, Calhoun County, IA, Carroll County, IA, Cedar County, IA, Cerro Gordo County, IA, Chickasaw County, IA, Clayton County, IA, Dallas County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Dubuque County, IA, Fayette County, IA, Floyd County, IA, Franklin County, IA, Greene County, IA, Grundy County, IA, Guthrie County, IA, Hamilton County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Hardin County, IA, Humboldt County, IA, Iowa County, IA, Jasper County, IA, Johnson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Keokuk County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Linn County, IA, Mahaska County, IA, Marion County, IA, Marshall County, IA, Muscatine County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA, Polk County, IA, Poweshiek County, IA, Story County, IA, Tama County, IA, Warren County, IA, Washington County, IA, Webster County, IA, Wright County, IA

The radar

The Des Moines radar (KDMX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 13, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXPalo Alto, Pocahontas53 min
Sep 13, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXHumboldt, Kossuth27 min
Sep 13, 8:35 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXPalo Alto, Pocahontas25 min
Sep 13, 8:40 PM CDTTornado WarningDMXHumboldt, Kossuth20 min
Sep 13, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXHancock, Wright52 min
Sep 13, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXHumboldt, Kossuth17 min
Sep 13, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXHamilton, Webster, Wright45 min
Sep 13, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXHardin47 min
Sep 13, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXHamilton, Story46 min
Sep 13, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXMarshall34 min
Sep 14, 12:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMXCalhoun, Sac33 min

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 247 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, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 2000-09-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 2000-09-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 134 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2544 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
195 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
Sep 14, 12:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 17 more5 hr
Sep 14, 3:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAppanoose, Davis, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson and 11 more5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Iowa, 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.