Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 370
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 10, 2016, 10:40 PM CDT for 13 counties in Minnesota; 26 counties in North Dakota; 12 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 2016, 10:40 PM CDT (03:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2016, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 51 counties
Becker County, MN, Big Stone County, MN, Clay County, MN, Grant 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, Traverse County, MN, Wilkin County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Cass County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Grant County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Morton County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Steele County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND, Brown County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Corson County, SD, Day County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Marshall County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Potter County, SD, Roberts County, SD, Walworth County, SD
The radar
The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:40 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
- 30%
- 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Benson, Eddy, Ramsey | 62 min |
| Jul 10, 10:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dickey, Foster, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan, McIntosh and 1 more | 61 min |
| Jul 10, 11:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Barnes, Griggs, Nelson, Ransom, Steele | 56 min |
| Jul 11, 12:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Clay, Wilkin | 47 min |
| Jul 11, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Grand Forks, Steele, Traill | 50 min |
| Jul 11, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons, Sioux | 63 min |
| Jul 11, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Sioux | 65 min |
| Jul 11, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clay, Mahnomen, Norman, Otter Tail, Wilkin | 47 min |
| Jul 11, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Morton | 35 min |
| Jul 11, 1:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Mahnomen, Norman, Polk | 54 min |
| Jul 11, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Becker, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen, Norman, Otter Tail and 2 more | 60 min |
| Jul 11, 1:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons | 55 min |
| Jul 11, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons, Morton, Sioux | 23 min |
| Jul 11, 2:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen, Polk | 59 min |
| Jul 11, 2:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons, Logan, McIntosh | 64 min |
| Jul 11, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard, Otter Tail, Wadena | 29 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 1330 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -355 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1033 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 10:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Mahnomen and 8 more | 89 min |
| Jul 11, 1:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Big Stone, Cass and 27 more | 89 min |
| Jul 11, 1:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Beltrami, Benton, Cass, Clearwater, Crow Wing and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 11, 3:22 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Benton, Carlton, Chisago, Crow Wing, Isanti and 5 more | 83 min |
| Jul 11, 4:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Grant, Otter Tail, Traverse and 1 more | 84 min |
| Jul 11, 3:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota and 28 more | 119 min |
| Jul 11, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chippewa and 36 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 11, 5:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Chisago, Hennepin, Isanti, Kandiyohi and 5 more | 58 min |
| Jul 11, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anoka, Benton, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Kandiyohi and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 11, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Pine | 5 hr |
| Jul 10, 7:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Benson, Bottineau, Burleigh, Cavalier, Dunn and 28 more | 55 min |
| Jul 11, 1:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barnes, Burleigh, Dickey, Emmons, Grant, Kidder and 7 more | 58 min |
| Jul 11, 4:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benson, Burleigh, Eddy, Emmons, Foster, Kidder and 6 more | 117 min |
| Jul 10, 7:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brule, Buffalo, Dewey, Faulk, Haakon, Hand and 12 more | 96 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.