Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 33
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 26, 2004, 6:35 PM MST for Fallon County, Richland County, Wibaux County, Montana; 12 counties in North Dakota; 4 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2004, 6:35 PM MST (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2004, 12:00 AM MST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Fallon County, MT, Richland County, MT, Wibaux County, MT, Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Butte County, SD, Harding County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Ziebach County, SD
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:34 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
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 6:48 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Harding | 57 min |
| Mar 26, 7:05 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | McCone, Richland | 55 min |
| Mar 26, 7:54 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Richland | 66 min |
| Mar 26, 8:10 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Harding | 35 min |
| Mar 26, 8:48 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Harding | 57 min |
| Mar 26, 9:15 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bowman | 45 min |
| Mar 26, 10:13 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Hettinger | 47 min |
| Mar 26, 10:21 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte | 54 min |
| Mar 26, 10:41 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stark | 34 min |
| Mar 26, 10:49 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams | 56 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 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 1872 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 466 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 715 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 5:37 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Fallon | 53 min |
| Mar 26, 8:35 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Wibaux | 55 min |
| Mar 26, 10:30 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Burleigh, Emmons, Grant, Hettinger, Morton and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 27, 12:18 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burleigh, Emmons, Grant, Morton, Sioux | 87 min |
| Mar 27, 11:11 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Union | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Dakota, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Montana, 2004Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2004
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.