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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 333
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 19, 2014, 1:31 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 2014, 1:31 AM CDT (06:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2014, 4:28 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 22 counties
Lyon County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Cottonwood County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Rock County, MN, Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Clay County, SD, Lincoln County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Turner County, SD, Union County, SD, Yankton County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:31 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
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 8:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dickinson, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Sioux | 88 min |
| Jun 19, 1:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lyon, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury | 90 min |
| Jun 19, 3:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lyon, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury | 90 min |
| Jun 19, 1:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Clay and 15 more | 95 min |
| Jun 19, 2:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kossuth, Winnebago, Worth | 88 min |
| Jun 19, 2:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, Dubuque, Jackson, Jones and 4 more | 65 min |
| Jun 18, 9:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Clay, Cottonwood, Douglas and 22 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 10:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Stone, Blue Earth, Brown, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Faribault and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 19, 1:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa, Faribault, Freeborn and 16 more | 58 min |
| Jun 18, 7:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Deuel, Keith, Perkins | 97 min |
| Jun 18, 9:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Clay, Fillmore, Franklin, Hall, Hamilton and 6 more | 61 min |
| Jun 18, 10:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Chase, Custer, Dawson, Deuel, Frontier and 15 more | 62 min |
| Jun 18, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Antelope, Arthur, Blaine, Boone, Boyd and 45 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 19, 2:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butte, Corson, Dewey, Haakon, Harding, Jackson and 8 more | 53 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.