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Tornado Watch 529

June 26, 200515 counties in Minnesota; 25 counties in North Dakota; 10 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 26, 2005, 1:45 PM CDT for 15 counties in Minnesota; 25 counties in North Dakota; 10 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 2005, 1:45 PM CDT (18:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2005, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 50 counties

Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Cass County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Grant County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Morton County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Steele County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Traill County, ND, Wells County, ND, Brown County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Corson County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Potter County, SD, Walworth County, SD, Ziebach County, SD

The radar

The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:46 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, 1:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Becker, Otter Tail	57 min
Jun 26, 2:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Becker, Otter Tail	63 min
Jun 26, 2:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGF	Becker	16 hr
Jun 26, 3:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Hubbard, Wadena	56 min
Jun 26, 4:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FGF	Hubbard	15 hr
Jun 26, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Edmunds, McPherson	50 min
Jun 26, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Mercer, Oliver	30 min
Jun 26, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Grant, Morton, Sioux	30 min
Jun 26, 5:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Edmunds	29 min
Jun 26, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	McPherson	57 min
Jun 26, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Morton, Sioux	45 min
Jun 26, 6:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Edmunds, McPherson	29 min
Jun 26, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Oliver	22 min
Jun 26, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	McPherson	27 min
Jun 26, 7:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Morton	29 min
Jun 26, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Oliver	27 min
Jun 26, 7:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Brown	43 min
Jun 26, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey	50 min
Jun 26, 8:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BIS	Grant, Hettinger	41 min
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, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Ziebach	48 min
Jun 26, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Grant	61 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, 9:14 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, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson	53 min
Jun 26, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons	45 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 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -386 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.3

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, 10:50 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Becker, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Mahnomen, Norman and 5 more	115 min
Jun 26, 1:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clay, Clearwater and 15 more	2 hr
Jun 26, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca	6 hr
Jun 26, 3:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods and 9 more	87 min
Jun 25, 7:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Divide and 12 more	6 hr
Jun 25, 10:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Divide and 12 more	85 min
Jun 25, 11:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Benson, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke and 29 more	116 min
Jun 26, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Benson, Bottineau, Burleigh, Cavalier, Eddy and 17 more	6 hr
Jun 26, 3:58 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Burleigh, Cavalier, Eddy, Foster, Kidder, Nelson and 3 more	92 min
Jun 26, 2:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Hettinger and 5 more	3 hr
Jun 26, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burke, Divide, Dunn and 10 more	7 hr
Jun 25, 9:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butte, Custer, Fall River, Lawrence, Oglala Lakota, Pennington	97 min
Jun 26, 3:59 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bennett, Custer, Fall River, Jackson, Oglala Lakota, Pennington	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.