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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 404

June 6, 200426 counties in North Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 6, 2004, 2:45 PM MDT for 26 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 2004, 2:45 PM MDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 2004, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties

Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bottineau County, ND, Burke County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Divide County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Renville County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Ward County, ND, Williams County, ND

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 4:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie55 min
Jun 6, 4:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMountrail54 min
Jun 6, 4:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcLean63 min
Jun 6, 5:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurke66 min
Jun 6, 5:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMountrail, Renville, Ward61 min
Jun 6, 5:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie41 min
Jun 6, 6:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcLean27 min
Jun 6, 6:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBottineau53 min
Jun 6, 6:19 PM MDTTornado WarningBISMcLean, Ward26 min
Jun 6, 6:46 PM MDTTornado WarningBISMcLean29 min
Jun 6, 6:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMountrail, Renville, Ward58 min
Jun 6, 6:48 PM MDTTornado WarningBISMcLean27 min
Jun 6, 6:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcHenry55 min
Jun 6, 6:58 PM MDTTornado WarningBISWard32 min
Jun 6, 7:18 PM MDTTornado WarningBISMcLean27 min
Jun 6, 7:21 PM MDTTornado WarningBISMcLean24 min
Jun 6, 7:43 PM MDTTornado WarningBISSheridan32 min
Jun 6, 7:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcHenry, Pierce60 min
Jun 6, 7:48 PM MDTTornado WarningBISMcLean27 min
Jun 6, 7:56 PM MDTTornado WarningBISMcHenry34 min
Jun 6, 8:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISRenville, Ward56 min
Jun 6, 8:16 PM MDTTornado WarningBISSheridan, Wells44 min
Jun 6, 8:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISWilliams30 min
Jun 6, 8:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie51 min
Jun 6, 8:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBottineau64 min
Jun 6, 8:35 PM MDTTornado WarningBISBottineau, Renville25 min
Jun 6, 8:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcHenry, Pierce60 min
Jun 6, 8:59 PM MDTTornado WarningBISBottineau46 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2004-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2004-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
202 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 12:09 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Benson, Billings, Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh and 33 more3 hr
Jun 6, 4:52 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBillings, Bowman, Burke, Dunn, McKenzie, Mercer and 4 more83 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.