Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 787
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 25, 2004, 7:05 PM CDT for 23 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 2004, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2004, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Stutsman 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Ransom, Sargent | 42 min |
| Aug 25, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 38 min |
| Aug 25, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Ward | 60 min |
| Aug 25, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 46 min |
| Aug 25, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes | 52 min |
| Aug 25, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Ward | 47 min |
| Aug 25, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 43 min |
| Aug 25, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Griggs | 42 min |
| Aug 25, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Ward | 54 min |
| Aug 25, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Griggs | 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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 1559 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1549 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 10:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Burleigh, Dickey, Eddy, Emmons and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dickey, Emmons, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh, Richland and 1 more | 2 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.