Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Watches in 1999
Tornado Watch 369
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 3, 1999, 6:00 PM CDT for 26 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1999, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1999, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Bottineau County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McLean County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Renville County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Towner County, ND, Ward County, ND, Wells County, ND
The radar
The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Kidder | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry, McLean | 56 min |
| Jun 3, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Kidder, Stutsman | 31 min |
| Jun 3, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | McHenry, Pierce | 25 min |
| Jun 3, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Foster, Stutsman, Wells | 60 min |
| Jun 3, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry, Pierce | 54 min |
| Jun 3, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Cass | 35 min |
| Jun 3, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Rolette | 61 min |
| Jun 3, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Foster | 47 min |
| Jun 3, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Eddy | 32 min |
| Jun 3, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Griggs | 34 min |
| Jun 3, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Eddy, Nelson | 36 min |
| Jun 3, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Griggs | 35 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 897 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Billings, Burke, Burleigh, Divide, Dunn 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.