Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 731
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 5, 2011, 7:32 PM CDT for 15 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
- Aug 5, 2011, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2011, 11:23 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 32 counties
Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Foster County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Traill County, ND, Wells County, ND, Brown County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Day County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lyman County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Potter County, SD, Spink County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Walworth County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burleigh, Emmons, Kidder | 30 min |
| Aug 5, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey, Potter, Stanley, Sully | 60 min |
| Aug 5, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey, Hughes, Jones, Lyman, Stanley, Sully | 46 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 524 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 10:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barnes, Cass, Dickey, Foster, Griggs, Kidder and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 7:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butte | 88 min |
| Aug 6, 2:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Union | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 6:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin and 2 more | 2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.