Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 192
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 22, 2016, 5:21 PM CDT for 31 counties in North Dakota; 13 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2016, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 44 counties
Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Bottineau County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grant County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Renville County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Towner County, ND, Ward County, ND, Wells County, ND, Brown County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Corson County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hyde County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Potter County, SD, Spink County, SD, Walworth County, SD
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, Corson, Walworth | 40 min |
| May 22, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell | 46 min |
| May 22, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Foster, Stutsman | 55 min |
| May 22, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey, Potter, Walworth | 38 min |
| May 22, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Stutsman | 57 min |
| May 22, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Wells | 44 min |
| May 22, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Eddy, Ramsey | 58 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 900 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 339 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 3:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bottineau, Burleigh, Emmons, Grant, Hettinger and 14 more | 93 min |
| May 22, 2:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jones, Lyman, Mellette, Stanley, Todd, Tripp | 96 min |
| May 22, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bennett, Haakon, Hughes, Jackson, Jones, Lyman and 5 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 6:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Haakon, Hughes, Jackson, Jones, Lyman and 4 more | 115 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Dakota, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2016Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2016
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.