Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 719
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 8, 2004, 12:55 PM CDT for 11 counties in Minnesota; 18 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2004, 12:55 PM CDT (17:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2004, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties
Becker County, MN, Clay County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Towner County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Eddy, Griggs | 41 min |
| Aug 8, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson, Roseau | 47 min |
| Aug 8, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay | 43 min |
| Aug 8, 4:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Pembina | 51 min |
| Aug 8, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen, Norman | 44 min |
| Aug 8, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Pennington, Polk | 42 min |
| Aug 8, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson | 32 min |
| Aug 8, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen | 16 min |
| Aug 8, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Walsh | 52 min |
| Aug 8, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson | 46 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
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 294 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
- 487 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 12:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Carver, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault and 19 more | 58 min |
| Aug 8, 12:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Kittson, Mahnomen and 8 more | 83 min |
| Aug 8, 4:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard and 11 more | 88 min |
| Aug 8, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Crow Wing and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 8, 5:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 31 more | 117 min |
| Aug 8, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Dakota and 21 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Dakota, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 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.