Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 498
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 19, 2005, 12:50 AM MDT for 21 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 2005, 12:50 AM MDT (06:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2005, 7:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Adams County, ND, Benson County, ND, Bottineau County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Kidder County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Renville County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Towner County, ND, Ward County, ND, Wells County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:50 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
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 1:01 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Mercer, Morton, Oliver | 59 min |
| Jun 19, 1:02 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Hettinger | 43 min |
| Jun 19, 1:23 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Mercer, Oliver | 37 min |
| Jun 19, 1:37 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McHenry, Ward | 58 min |
| Jun 19, 1:59 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Oliver | 31 min |
| Jun 19, 2:01 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mercer, Morton | 35 min |
| Jun 19, 2:18 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, McLean, Sheridan | 57 min |
| Jun 19, 2:23 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Oliver | 33 min |
| Jun 19, 2:30 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Burleigh, McLean | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 2:50 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean, Oliver | 16 min |
| Jun 19, 3:21 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Sheridan | 24 min |
| Jun 19, 3:31 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Pierce, Wells | 44 min |
| Jun 19, 3:34 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson | 56 min |
| Jun 19, 3:48 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Pierce | 27 min |
| Jun 19, 3:55 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Benson | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 4:10 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Towner | 58 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 3392 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1315 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 8:16 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burleigh, Dunn and 16 more | 119 min |
| Jun 18, 9:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Hettinger and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 19, 12:35 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Benson, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Cavalier and 31 more | 85 min |
| Jun 19, 2:32 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | McLean | 88 min |
| Jun 19, 4:07 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benson, Cavalier, Pembina, Ramsey, Towner, Walsh | 83 min |
| Jun 19, 2:23 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cass, Grand Forks, Griggs, Steele, Traill | 97 min |
| Jun 19, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Grand Forks, Griggs, Ransom, Richland and 3 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 19, 2:57 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dickey, Emmons, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh, Sioux 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.