Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 681
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 24, 2011, 1:43 PM MDT for 32 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 2011, 1:43 PM MDT (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2011, 7:56 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 32 counties
Adams County, ND, Barnes County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Cass County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Grant County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Steele County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Traill County, ND, Wells County, ND
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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
- 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
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 1:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Morton | 57 min |
| Jul 24, 1:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Kidder | 54 min |
| Jul 24, 2:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Hettinger, Slope | 54 min |
| Jul 24, 2:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams, Hettinger | 62 min |
| Jul 24, 2:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Morton, Oliver | 53 min |
| Jul 24, 2:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Foster, Wells | 65 min |
| Jul 24, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Kidder, Stutsman | 45 min |
| Jul 24, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Morton | 60 min |
| Jul 24, 2:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Eddy | 33 min |
| Jul 24, 3:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Kidder, Stutsman | 60 min |
| Jul 24, 3:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Kidder | 27 min |
| Jul 24, 3:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | LaMoure, Stutsman | 62 min |
| Jul 24, 3:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Morton | 45 min |
| Jul 24, 3:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Kidder, Stutsman | 59 min |
| Jul 24, 3:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Kidder, Sheridan | 53 min |
| Jul 24, 4:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks | 46 min |
| Jul 24, 4:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Kidder, Wells | 46 min |
| Jul 24, 4:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Nelson, Steele, Traill | 37 min |
| Jul 24, 5:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Foster, Wells | 67 min |
| Jul 24, 5:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Cass, Griggs, Steele, Traill | 37 min |
| Jul 24, 5:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh | 52 min |
| Jul 24, 5:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Griggs, Nelson, Steele, Traill | 39 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1184 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 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 24, 12:04 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Burleigh, Dunn, Emmons and 13 more | 86 min |
| Jul 24, 4:26 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Barnes, Benson, Bowman, Burleigh, Cass and 22 more | 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.