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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 586

July 19, 200114 counties in Minnesota; 9 counties in North Dakota; 8 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 19, 2001, 3:00 AM CDT for 14 counties in Minnesota; 9 counties in North Dakota; 8 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 19, 2001, 3:00 AM CDT (08:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 2001, 8:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties

Becker County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Clay County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pope County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Todd County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND, Dickey County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Brown County, SD, Day County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Grant County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Roberts County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 3:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBecker63 min
Jul 19, 3:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABREdmunds44 min
Jul 19, 3:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISLaMoure, Logan55 min
Jul 19, 3:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRBrown, Faulk, Spink48 min
Jul 19, 5:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFRansom23 min
Jul 19, 5:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFRichland44 min
Jul 19, 6:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFCass28 min
Jul 19, 6:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABRTraverse26 min

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 00:00Z on 2001-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4034 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 00:00Z on 2001-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 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
4034 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.5

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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 18, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods and 7 more5 hr
Jul 18, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Grant, Hettinger and 6 more5 hr
Jul 18, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Grant, Hettinger and 6 more5 hr
Jul 18, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarnes, Cass, Dickey, Emmons, Kidder, LaMoure and 5 more5 hr
Jul 19, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBillings, Burke, Divide, Golden Valley, McKenzie, Mountrail and 1 more5 hr
Jul 19, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAdams, Benson, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke and 26 more6 hr
Jul 19, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBennett, Butte, Campbell, Corson, Custer, Dewey and 15 more7 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 2001Severe 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.