Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 619
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 2, 2003, 11:20 AM CDT for 13 counties in Minnesota; 13 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 2003, 11:20 AM CDT (16:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2003, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Becker County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:24 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, 11:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Nelson, Ramsey, Walsh | 44 min |
| Jul 2, 11:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier | 46 min |
| Jul 2, 12:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Nelson, Walsh | 44 min |
| Jul 2, 12:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier, Pembina | 44 min |
| Jul 2, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Griggs | 40 min |
| Jul 2, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson, Marshall, Polk | 45 min |
| Jul 2, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pembina | 30 min |
| Jul 2, 1:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Steele | 33 min |
| Jul 2, 1:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Polk | 43 min |
| Jul 2, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson, Roseau | 44 min |
| Jul 2, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pennington, Polk, Red Lake | 47 min |
| Jul 2, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Norman | 38 min |
| Jul 2, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods, Roseau | 61 min |
| Jul 2, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard | 59 min |
| Jul 2, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 51 min |
| Jul 2, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 48 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 271 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
- 590 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -541 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1731 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 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, 11:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 1:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater and 18 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Hubbard, Itasca and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 2, 3:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Big Stone, Chippewa, Douglas, Grant, Kandiyohi and 13 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 5:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Chisago and 14 more | 61 min |
| Jul 2, 12:41 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Hettinger and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 7:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benson, Bottineau, Burleigh, Cavalier, Eddy, Emmons and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 2, 9:20 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Burleigh, Cavalier, Eddy, Emmons and 17 more | 115 min |
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.