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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 533

June 26, 20055 counties in Minnesota; 34 counties in North Dakota; 12 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 26, 2005, 8:15 PM CDT for 5 counties in Minnesota; 34 counties in North Dakota; 12 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 2005, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2005, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 51 counties

Clay County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Norman County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Cass County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McLean County, ND, Morton County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Steele County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Towner County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND, Wells County, ND, Brown County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Corson County, SD, Day County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Potter County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Walworth County, SD

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 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

33 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 8:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Grant, McHenry, McLean, Mercer, Morton, Oliver	4 hr
Jun 26, 8:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Morton	25 min
Jun 26, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Adams, Hettinger, Sioux	62 min
Jun 26, 8:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Sargent	62 min
Jun 26, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Sheridan	63 min
Jun 26, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson	62 min
Jun 26, 8:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Burleigh	28 min
Jun 26, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	47 min
Jun 26, 9:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Pierce, Rolette	4 hr
Jun 26, 9:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Emmons, Kidder, Morton, Sheridan, Sioux and 1 more	4 hr
Jun 26, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	56 min
Jun 26, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Ransom, Sargent	57 min
Jun 26, 9:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGF	Ramsey, Towner	12 hr
Jun 26, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson	53 min
Jun 26, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	45 min
Jun 26, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Kidder	61 min
Jun 26, 10:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGF	Ransom, Sargent	12 hr
Jun 26, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Benson	59 min
Jun 26, 10:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Campbell, Corson	43 min
Jun 26, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	65 min
Jun 26, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Ramsey	58 min
Jun 26, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Wells	55 min
Jun 26, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster	58 min
Jun 26, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Barnes, Benson, Eddy, Griggs, Nelson	66 min
Jun 26, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Ramsey	62 min
Jun 27, 12:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Grand Forks, Steele, Traill, Walsh	66 min
Jun 27, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Eddy, Griggs, Nelson	50 min
Jun 27, 12:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson, Marshall, Polk	57 min
Jun 27, 1:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Norman	58 min
Jun 27, 1:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Clay	53 min
Jun 27, 1:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Grand Forks, Traill, Walsh	42 min
Jun 27, 1:17 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGF	Kittson, Roseau	12 hr
Jun 27, 1:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson, Marshall, Roseau	65 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 2883 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 5.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 7:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods and 9 more	2 hr
Jun 26, 7:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca	2 hr
Jun 26, 9:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Kittson, Norman, Traverse, Wilkin	92 min
Jun 26, 10:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clearwater, Hubbard, Itasca and 8 more	115 min
Jun 26, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard and 11 more	6 hr
Jun 27, 1:51 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Polk, Wilkin	54 min
Jun 27, 2:59 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hubbard, Koochiching	61 min
Jun 27, 12:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Benton, Brown, Carlton, Cass, Chippewa and 22 more	2 hr
Jun 27, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Cook, Crow Wing and 8 more	5 hr
Jun 27, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Cottonwood and 31 more	7 hr
Jun 27, 3:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton and 53 more	83 min
Jun 27, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anoka, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Pine, Ramsey and 1 more	3 hr
Jun 27, 6:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Dakota, Dodge and 25 more	118 min
Jun 26, 7:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Benson, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke and 21 more	2 hr
Jun 27, 3:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Custer, Fall River, Lawrence, Oglala Lakota	2 hr
Jun 27, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Jackson, Lawrence and 3 more	7 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Dakota, 2005 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2005 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2005

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.