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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 582

July 2, 200531 counties in North Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 2, 2005, 4:50 PM MDT for 31 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 2, 2005, 4:50 PM MDT (22:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2005, 1:00 AM MDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 31 counties

Adams County, ND, Benson County, ND, Bottineau County, ND, Burke County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Kidder County, ND, Logan County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Renville County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Stark County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Towner County, ND, Ward County, ND, Wells County, ND

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 6:04 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Renville	26 min
Jul 2, 6:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Bottineau	67 min
Jul 2, 6:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stark	59 min
Jul 2, 7:05 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Bottineau	25 min
Jul 2, 7:30 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Bottineau	33 min
Jul 2, 7:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer	54 min
Jul 2, 7:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Rolette	60 min
Jul 2, 8:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton	59 min
Jul 2, 8:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Cavalier, Towner	62 min
Jul 2, 8:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Hettinger	34 min
Jul 2, 8:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant	62 min
Jul 2, 8:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Morton	61 min
Jul 2, 9:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Sioux	65 min
Jul 2, 10:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Morton	60 min
Jul 2, 10:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	63 min
Jul 2, 10:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder, Logan, McIntosh	63 min
Jul 2, 10:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burke, Mountrail	25 min
Jul 2, 11:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Stutsman	59 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 1, 8:20 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burke, Dunn, Golden Valley and 12 more	115 min
Jul 2, 1:54 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Hettinger, Slope	3 hr
Jul 2, 2:46 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barnes, Benson, Bottineau, Cass, Cavalier, Dickey and 22 more	2 hr
Jul 2, 4:30 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Benson, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke and 35 more	2 hr
Jul 2, 5:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cavalier, Eddy, Foster, Grand Forks, Griggs, Nelson and 5 more	8 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.