Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 324
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 29, 2004, 3:25 PM CDT for 8 counties in Minnesota; 24 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 2004, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2004, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties
Becker County, MN, Clay County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Polk County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Cass County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Towner County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND, Wells County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Sargent | 55 min |
| May 29, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dickey | 52 min |
| May 29, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dickey | 56 min |
| May 29, 7:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Richland, Sargent | 12 hr |
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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 739 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 7:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock and 1 more | 89 min |
| May 28, 9:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 31 more | 57 min |
| May 28, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Martin and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 28, 11:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Lac qui Parle and 12 more | 94 min |
| May 29, 12:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Rock | 93 min |
| May 29, 2:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Grant, Jackson and 22 more | 8 hr |
| May 29, 5:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi and 20 more | 119 min |
| May 29, 3:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Foster and 12 more | 2 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.