Alert archive / North Dakota / Tornado Watches in 2001

Tornado Watch 388

June 9, 20018 counties in North Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 9, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT for 8 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2001, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Barnes County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Sargent County, ND

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Logan	44 min
Jun 9, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey, McIntosh	46 min
Jun 9, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Sargent	46 min

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 147 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -389 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS9 KMKC 100056
SEL8  

SEL8  
MKC WW 100053
NDZ000-100400-

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 388
STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
753 PM CDT SAT JUN 9 2001

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

   SOUTHEAST NORTH DAKOTA                       

EFFECTIVE THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 815 PM UNTIL
1100 PM CDT.

TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 80 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 55 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST
OF A LINE FROM 65 MILES SOUTH OF JAMESTOWN NORTH DAKOTA TO 5 MILES
EAST NORTHEAST OF JAMESTOWN NORTH DAKOTA.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. 
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...  CONTINUE...WW 383...WW 384...WW
385...WW 386...WW 387...

DISCUSSION...TWO SUPERCELLS OVER EMMONS AND LOGAN COUNTIES ARE
MOVING SEWD INTO SERN ND...WITH THREAT FOR SEVERE STORMS AND
POSSIBLE TORNADOES CONTINUING NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.


AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES.  EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 70 KNOTS.  A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500. 
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 25035.


...WEISS

;465,0972 455,0973 455,0994 465,0994;

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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.