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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 413
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 13, 2013, 2:47 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 2013, 2:47 PM MDT (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2013, 8:59 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 45 counties
Carter County, MT, Fallon County, MT, Richland County, MT, Roosevelt County, MT, Sheridan County, MT, Wibaux County, MT, Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bottineau County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Burke County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Divide County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Renville County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Ward County, ND, Williams County, ND, Butte County, SD, Corson County, SD, Custer County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Harding County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Meade County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Ziebach County, SD, Crook County, WY, Weston County, WY
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
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 13, 3:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Richland, Roosevelt | 65 min |
| Jul 13, 3:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Williams | 46 min |
| Jul 13, 3:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie, Williams | 41 min |
| Jul 13, 3:54 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Williams | 36 min |
| Jul 13, 4:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie | 51 min |
| Jul 13, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide, Williams | 46 min |
| Jul 13, 5:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, McKenzie | 51 min |
| Jul 13, 5:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Burke, Divide, Mountrail, Williams | 47 min |
| Jul 13, 5:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte, Lawrence | 42 min |
| Jul 13, 5:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings, Dunn, McKenzie | 57 min |
| Jul 13, 6:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, Burke, McHenry, Renville, Ward | 38 min |
| Jul 13, 6:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, McHenry, Renville, Ward | 49 min |
| Jul 13, 6:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Adams, Bowman, Hettinger, Slope | 54 min |
| Jul 13, 7:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bottineau, McHenry, Pierce, Rolette | 58 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 2:08 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Fallon, Wibaux | 67 min |
| Jul 13, 5:33 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Fallon, Wibaux | 87 min |
| Jul 12, 8:13 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Richland, Sargent | 92 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.