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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 448

June 24, 20079 counties in North Dakota; 17 counties in South Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 24, 2007, 6:30 PM MDT for 9 counties in North Dakota; 17 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 2007, 6:30 PM MDT (00:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 2007, 10:37 PM MDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
70 kt
All 26 counties

Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Butte County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Corson County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Harding County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Potter County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Walworth County, SD, Ziebach County, SD

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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.

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
2%
Ten or more severe wind reports
50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
30%
Ten or more severe hail reports
30%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
70%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 6:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRHarding55 min
Jun 24, 6:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRPerkins66 min
Jun 24, 6:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNRMeade49 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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2007-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3796 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2007-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3796 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1514 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.4
Supercell composite
17.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 6:11 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams2 hr
Jun 24, 7:11 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenson, Burleigh, Cavalier, Eddy, McHenry, McLean and 10 more64 min
Jun 24, 8:30 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Grant, Hettinger, Sioux, Stark90 min
Jun 24, 9:47 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenson, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley and 16 more58 min
Jun 24, 10:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBenson, Billings, Bottineau, Burleigh, Cavalier, Dunn and 31 more7 hr
Jun 25, 2:31 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBottineau, Cavalier, Dunn, McHenry, McLean, Mountrail and 6 more89 min
Jun 25, 9:12 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDivide93 min
Jun 25, 2:59 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBurleigh, Emmons, Grant, Kidder, Logan, Morton and 4 more91 min
Jun 25, 4:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Golden Valley, Hettinger and 3 more8 hr
Jun 25, 5:57 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenson, Cavalier, Eddy, Nelson, Pembina, Ramsey and 3 more2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2007Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Dakota, 2007Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2007

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.