Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 322
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 4, 2016, 3:00 PM CDT for 19 counties in Minnesota; 32 counties in North Dakota; 8 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 2016, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2016, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 59 counties
Becker County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Clay County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Lake of the Woods County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Traverse County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Bottineau County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Cass County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McHenry County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Pierce County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Rolette County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Sheridan County, ND, Steele County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Towner County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND, Wells County, ND, Brown County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Day County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Walworth County, SD
The radar
The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Towner | 44 min |
| Jul 4, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Ramsey | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Eddy, Nelson, Ramsey, Walsh | 61 min |
| Jul 4, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dickey | 42 min |
| Jul 4, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, McPherson | 37 min |
| Jul 4, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Eddy, Grand Forks, Griggs, Nelson, Steele | 54 min |
| Jul 4, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Foster | 45 min |
| Jul 4, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown | 28 min |
| Jul 4, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Cass, Griggs, Steele, Traill | 52 min |
| Jul 4, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Traill | 22 min |
| Jul 4, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Cass, Ransom, Richland, Steele | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay | 47 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 378 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -274 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1829 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 1:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 4, 5:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Kittson and 12 more | 85 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Dakota, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Minnesota, 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.