Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 555

July 14, 200115 counties in North Dakota; 11 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 14, 2001, 4:00 PM CDT for 15 counties in North Dakota; 11 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 14, 2001, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 2001, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties

Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Traill County, ND, Brown County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Day County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Spink County, SD

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcIntosh62 min
Jul 14, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRCampbell, McPherson43 min
Jul 14, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds, Walworth46 min
Jul 14, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRHyde, Potter, Sully50 min
Jul 14, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRFaulk50 min
Jul 14, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRMcPherson47 min
Jul 14, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRFaulk35 min
Jul 14, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Edmunds, Faulk, Spink45 min

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 109 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2001-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Aberdeen, SD at 12:00Z on 2001-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-310 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1307 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.3

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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
Jul 14, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Dunn, Emmons and 14 more6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Dakota, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2001

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.