Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 510
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 23, 2004, 10:50 AM CDT for 11 counties in Minnesota; 15 counties in North Dakota; Campbell County, McPherson County, South Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 2004, 10:50 AM CDT (15:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2004, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Cass County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Foster County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Traill County, ND, Campbell County, SD, McPherson County, SD
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:52 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
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 11:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Steele, Traill | 43 min |
| Jun 23, 11:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Norman, Polk | 50 min |
| Jun 23, 11:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Traill | 42 min |
| Jun 23, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay, Norman | 47 min |
| Jun 23, 12:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 46 min |
| Jun 23, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker | 45 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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 952 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 10:17 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Carlton and 34 more | 118 min |
| Jun 23, 12:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 29 more | 88 min |
| Jun 23, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 32 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 1:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Cass, Crow Wing, Grant, Hubbard, Otter Tail and 2 more | 66 min |
| Jun 23, 3:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge and 23 more | 90 min |
| Jun 23, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha and 1 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Dakota, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 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.