Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 583
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 2, 2005, 6:20 PM CDT for 9 counties in Minnesota; 11 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 2005, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2005, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Beltrami County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Cavalier County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Steele County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 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, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson | 25 min |
| Jul 2, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pembina | 45 min |
| Jul 2, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson | 59 min |
| Jul 2, 7:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FGF | Kittson | 12 hr |
| Jul 2, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier | 58 min |
| Jul 2, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson | 58 min |
| Jul 2, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Pembina | 32 min |
| Jul 2, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Cavalier, Towner | 62 min |
| Jul 2, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson | 59 min |
| Jul 2, 10:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Cavalier, Pembina | 53 min |
| Jul 2, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson | 57 min |
| Jul 2, 10:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson | 53 min |
| Jul 2, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FGF | Kittson, Roseau | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Kittson, Roseau | 63 min |
| Jul 3, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Lake of the Woods, Roseau | 59 min |
| Jul 3, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Griggs | 40 min |
| Jul 3, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Steele | 57 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 287 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
- 1481 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 5:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kittson | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 9:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burke, Dunn, Golden Valley and 12 more | 115 min |
| Jul 2, 2:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Golden Valley, Hettinger, Slope | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 3:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barnes, Benson, Bottineau, Cass, Cavalier, Dickey and 22 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Benson, Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Dunn and 25 more | 8 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Dakota, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 2005Every 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.