Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 704
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 19, 2008, 2:53 PM CDT for 19 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 2008, 2:53 PM CDT (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2008, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Burke County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Divide County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Grant County, ND, Kidder County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Ward County, ND, Williams County, ND
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
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie, Williams | 61 min |
| Jul 19, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, McKenzie, Mountrail | 64 min |
| Jul 19, 4:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Dunn, McKenzie, Mountrail | 35 min |
| Jul 19, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Dunn | 30 min |
| Jul 19, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, Mercer | 43 min |
| Jul 19, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons, McIntosh | 52 min |
| Jul 19, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, Mercer, Morton, Oliver, Stark | 38 min |
| Jul 19, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Mercer, Morton, Oliver | 42 min |
| Jul 19, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons, McIntosh | 31 min |
| Jul 19, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Morton, Oliver | 53 min |
| Jul 19, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Emmons, Kidder, Morton, Sioux | 67 min |
| Jul 19, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke, Divide | 53 min |
| Jul 19, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons, Logan, McIntosh | 67 min |
| Jul 19, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McIntosh | 56 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -156 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 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 19, 1:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burke, Divide, Dunn, McKenzie, McLean, Mercer and 3 more | 86 min |
| Jul 19, 5:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burleigh, McLean, Mercer, Morton, Oliver | 89 min |
| Jul 18, 8:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Dewey, Haakon, Harding and 15 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 18, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aurora, Brule, Buffalo, Charles Mix, Dewey, Douglas and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 18, 11:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aurora, Bennett, Brule, Buffalo, Charles Mix, Custer and 19 more | 88 min |
| Jul 19, 1:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Douglas, Gregory, Hutchinson and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bon Homme, Clay, Hutchinson, Lincoln, McCook, Minnehaha and 3 more | 8 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.