Alert archive / South Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 234
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 2, 2016, 4:04 PM MDT for 15 counties in North Dakota; 19 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2016, 4:04 PM MDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2016, 10:03 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 34 counties
Adams County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Stark County, ND, Brown County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Corson County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Meade County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Potter County, SD, Spink County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Walworth County, SD, Ziebach County, SD
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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
- 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
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 4:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, Mercer, Morton, Stark | 56 min |
| Jun 2, 4:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade, Perkins | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 5:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Meade, Pennington, Perkins, Ziebach | 59 min |
| Jun 2, 5:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Ziebach | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 6:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey, Stanley | 38 min |
| Jun 2, 8:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, Faulk, Hand, Hyde, Potter, Sully and 1 more | 41 min |
| Jun 2, 8:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes, Hyde, Lyman, Stanley | 23 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 1489 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2:03 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Billings, Bowman, Dunn, Emmons, Golden Valley and 9 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North 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.