Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 617
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 2, 2003, 7:00 AM CDT for 26 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 2003, 7:00 AM CDT (12:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2003, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Benson County, ND, Bottineau County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grant County, ND, Kidder County, ND, Logan County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Renville County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Towner County, ND, Ward County, ND, Wells County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:59 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
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 8:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, Renville | 59 min |
| Jul 2, 9:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Ward | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 9:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry | 59 min |
| Jul 2, 9:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, Rolette | 64 min |
| Jul 2, 10:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Towner | 44 min |
| Jul 2, 10:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Pierce | 55 min |
| Jul 2, 10:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson | 39 min |
| Jul 2, 10:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry | 27 min |
| Jul 2, 10:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Rolette | 55 min |
| Jul 2, 10:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Ramsey, Towner | 44 min |
| Jul 2, 10:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Eddy | 37 min |
| Jul 2, 11:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Nelson, Ramsey, Walsh | 44 min |
| Jul 2, 11:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Eddy | 26 min |
| Jul 2, 11:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Wells | 47 min |
| Jul 2, 11:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier | 46 min |
| Jul 2, 12:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier, Pembina | 44 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 2034 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -295 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1447 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 12:41 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Hettinger and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 9:20 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Burleigh, Cavalier, Eddy, Emmons and 17 more | 115 min |
| Jul 2, 11:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Grand Forks, Griggs, LaMoure, Nelson and 5 more | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 11:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Cavalier, Grand Forks, Griggs, Nelson and 7 more | 6 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.