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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 274
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 19, 2016, 5:33 PM CDT for 5 counties in Minnesota; 24 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 2016, 5:33 PM CDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2016, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 29 counties
Big Stone County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Aurora County, SD, Beadle County, SD, Brookings County, SD, Brule County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Clark County, SD, Codington County, SD, Davison County, SD, Deuel County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Grant County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hamlin County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, Lake County, SD, McCook County, SD, Miner County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Sanborn County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings, Lake, Moody | 36 min |
| Jun 19, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Deuel | 19 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 18, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Kittson, Marshall, Roseau | 8 hr |
| Jun 19, 4:10 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Marshall, Pennington, Red Lake | 95 min |
| Jun 19, 7:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Koochiching | 89 min |
| Jun 19, 3:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Big Stone, Carlton and 38 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 19, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Cass, Chippewa, Cook and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 19, 3:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Boyd, Brown, Keya Paha, Rock, Thomas | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 6:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chase, Custer, Dawson, Dundy, Frontier, Furnas and 11 more | 113 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Dakota, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 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.