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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 251
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 13, 2016, 4:07 PM MDT for 8 counties in Montana; 11 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2016, 4:07 PM MDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2016, 7:49 PM MDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Dawson County, MT, Garfield County, MT, McCone County, MT, Prairie County, MT, Richland County, MT, Roosevelt County, MT, Sheridan County, MT, Wibaux County, MT, Billings County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Burke County, ND, Divide County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Williams County, ND
The radar
The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 169 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 5:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Prairie | 53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 12:00 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Horn, Powder River | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 12:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Horn, Carter, Custer, Fallon, Powder River, Prairie and 3 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 13, 1:37 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Daniels, Dawson, Garfield, McCone, Richland, Roosevelt and 2 more | 53 min |
| Jun 13, 2:51 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Horn, Carter, Custer, Fallon, Powder River, Rosebud and 2 more | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 3:40 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Daniels, Dawson, Garfield, McCone, Richland, Roosevelt and 3 more | 95 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Dakota, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Montana, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.