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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 413

June 18, 200718 counties in Minnesota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 18, 2007, 12:03 AM CDT for 18 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 18, 2007, 12:03 AM CDT (05:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 2007, 2:53 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1.5 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt

Counties Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Kittson 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, Roseau County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes
20%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
5%
Ten or more severe wind reports
30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
30%
Ten or more severe hail reports
10%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
50%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 12:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFPolk, Red Lake65 min
Jun 18, 12:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFClearwater60 min
Jun 18, 12:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFPennington59 min
Jun 18, 1:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBeltrami, Hubbard66 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 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 230 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, International Fa, MN at 00:00Z on 2007-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, International Fa, MN at 00:00Z on 2007-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 326 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
573 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
326 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
494 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
8.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 7:59 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Itasca, Kittson, Koochiching and 9 more91 min
Jun 17, 10:43 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBecker, Big Stone, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Kittson and 9 more62 min
Jun 18, 12:44 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAitkin, Beltrami, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Clearwater and 14 more61 min
Jun 18, 1:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Koochiching3 hr
Jun 18, 12:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDodge, Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted and 2 more7 hr
Jun 18, 3:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona93 min

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.