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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 585

July 3, 20059 counties in Minnesota; 5 counties in North Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 3, 2005, 1:35 AM CDT for 9 counties in Minnesota; 5 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 2005, 1:35 AM CDT (06:35 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2005, 6:00 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Beltrami County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Koochiching County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN, Grand Forks County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Steele County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 222 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:37 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 1:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFSteele57 min
Jul 3, 2:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFWalsh54 min
Jul 3, 2:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLHKoochiching66 min
Jul 3, 2:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFTraill46 min
Jul 3, 2:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFGrand Forks67 min
Jul 3, 3:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFPolk45 min
Jul 3, 3:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFPolk35 min
Jul 3, 3:25 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningFGFPolk4 hr
Jul 3, 3:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFPennington, Red Lake41 min
Jul 3, 4:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFMarshall27 min
Jul 3, 4:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBeltrami62 min
Jul 3, 4:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFMarshall28 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 8:45 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington and 3 more2 hr
Jul 2, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBecker, Big Stone, Chippewa, Clay, Douglas, Grant and 17 more7 hr
Jul 2, 11:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington and 3 more2 hr
Jul 3, 1:12 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeltrami, Clearwater, Itasca, Kittson, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods and 5 more33 min
Jul 3, 3:27 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAitkin, Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carlton and 56 more33 min
Jul 3, 4:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnoka, Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 37 more5 hr
Jul 3, 5:34 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeltrami, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Lake of the Woods and 2 more26 min
Jul 3, 6:39 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 33 more66 min
Jul 3, 8:09 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower and 4 more66 min
Jul 3, 1:25 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Faribault, Freeborn and 10 more3 hr
Jul 3, 6:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDodge, Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted and 2 more118 min
Jul 2, 9:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDickey, LaMoure, Ransom, Richland, Sargent2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Dakota, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.