Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 659
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 18, 2011, 2:28 PM MDT for 6 counties in North Dakota; 7 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 2011, 2:28 PM MDT (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2011, 8:59 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Adams County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Slope County, ND, Butte County, SD, Corson County, SD, Harding County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Ziebach County, SD
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 2:54 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | UNR | Harding | 2 hr |
| Jul 18, 3:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Harding | 65 min |
| Jul 18, 3:54 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Harding, Perkins | 51 min |
| Jul 18, 4:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Harding, Perkins | 48 min |
| Jul 18, 4:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams | 64 min |
| Jul 18, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams, Hettinger | 58 min |
| Jul 18, 6:22 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Adams | 38 min |
| Jul 18, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams, Grant, Sioux | 62 min |
| Jul 18, 7:01 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Adams, Grant, Sioux | 29 min |
| Jul 18, 7:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Sioux | 30 min |
| Jul 18, 7:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Sioux | 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
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -406 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 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 18, 2:11 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams | 94 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.