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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 371
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 11, 2016, 1:51 AM CDT for 19 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 2016, 1:51 AM CDT (06:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2016, 6:31 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
Counties Aitkin County, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Benton County, MN, Cass County, MN, Clearwater County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Pine County, MN, Pope County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Wadena County, MN
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 192 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:51 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
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 2:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen, Polk | 59 min |
| Jul 11, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Hubbard, Otter Tail, Wadena | 29 min |
| Jul 11, 2:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing | 63 min |
| Jul 11, 2:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FGF | Beltrami, Hubbard | 61 min |
| Jul 11, 3:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cass, Itasca | 46 min |
| Jul 11, 3:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Crow Wing, Itasca, Pine, Saint Louis | 47 min |
| Jul 11, 4:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison | 51 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
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 408 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 908 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 10, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Becker, Big Stone, Clay, Grant, Mahnomen, Marshall and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 11, 1:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Big Stone, Cass and 27 more | 89 min |
| 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 |
Nearby
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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.