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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 435

June 11, 200430 counties in North Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 11, 2004, 1:10 PM CDT for 30 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 11, 2004, 1:10 PM CDT (18:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2004, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 30 counties

Benson County, ND, Bottineau County, ND, Burke County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grant County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Mountrail 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

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
Jun 11, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McLean	62 min
Jun 11, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh	43 min
Jun 11, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McHenry	62 min
Jun 11, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Pierce, Wells	63 min
Jun 11, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	52 min
Jun 11, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Benson	39 min
Jun 11, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau	49 min
Jun 11, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Wells	46 min
Jun 11, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Benson	48 min
Jun 11, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Eddy	50 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 118 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 913 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 87 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -4 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 12:09 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benson, Bottineau, Burleigh, Dickey, Eddy, Emmons and 22 more	2 hr
Jun 11, 3:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benson, Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Dickey, Dunn and 24 more	114 min
Jun 11, 6:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barnes, Cass, Cavalier, Dickey, Grand Forks, Griggs and 10 more	95 min
Jun 11, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barnes, Benson, Cass, Cavalier, Eddy, Foster and 16 more	4 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.