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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 372
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 11, 2016, 3:48 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 2016, 3:48 PM CDT (20:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2016, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 78 counties
Audubon County, IA, Buena Vista County, IA, Calhoun County, IA, Carroll County, IA, Cherokee County, IA, Clay County, IA, Crawford County, IA, Dickinson County, IA, Emmet County, IA, Greene County, IA, Hamilton County, IA, Hancock County, IA, Humboldt County, IA, Ida County, IA, Kossuth County, IA, Lyon County, IA, O'Brien County, IA, Osceola County, IA, Palo Alto County, IA, Plymouth County, IA, Pocahontas County, IA, Sac County, IA, Sioux County, IA, Webster County, IA, Winnebago County, IA, Woodbury County, IA, Wright County, IA, Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Blue Earth County, MN, Brown County, MN, Carver County, MN, Chippewa County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Cottonwood County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Faribault County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Jackson County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, Le Sueur County, MN, Lincoln County, MN, Lyon County, MN, Martin County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Murray County, MN, Nicollet County, MN, Nobles County, MN, Pipestone County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Redwood County, MN, Renville County, MN, Rice County, MN, Rock County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Sibley County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Todd County, MN, Waseca County, MN, Washington County, MN, Watonwan County, MN, Wright County, MN, Yellow Medicine County, MN, Dakota County, NE, Dixon County, NE, Clay County, SD, Lincoln County, SD, Minnehaha County, SD, Moody County, SD, Turner County, SD, Union County, SD, Yankton County, SD
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Chisago, Isanti | 42 min |
| Jul 11, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker | 32 min |
| Jul 11, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 35 min |
| Jul 11, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Meeker, Stearns | 34 min |
| Jul 11, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison, Stearns | 28 min |
| Jul 11, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Morrison | 17 min |
| Jul 11, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 26 min |
| Jul 11, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Stearns | 32 min |
| Jul 11, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Kandiyohi, Meeker, Stearns | 30 min |
| Jul 11, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton | 36 min |
| Jul 11, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Stearns | 29 min |
| Jul 11, 7:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Benton, Morrison, Sherburne, Stearns | 4 hr |
| Jul 11, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Benton, Sherburne, Stearns | 23 min |
| Jul 11, 8:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MPX | Benton, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison | 4 hr |
| Jul 11, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Buena Vista | 43 min |
| Jul 11, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Crawford | 46 min |
| Jul 11, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Sherburne, Wright | 31 min |
| Jul 11, 8:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 25 min |
| Jul 11, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MPX | Sherburne | 11 min |
| Jul 11, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Carroll, Crawford, Sac | 38 min |
| Jul 11, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Carroll, Greene, Sac | 46 min |
| Jul 11, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DMX | Calhoun, Pocahontas, Sac, Webster | 34 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 1818 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 882 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 3:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Audubon, Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun and 37 more | 119 min |
| Jul 11, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Harrison, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 6 hr |
| 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, 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, 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 | Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, McPherson, Perkins and 1 more | 55 min |
| Jul 10, 7:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brule, Buffalo, Dewey, Faulk, Haakon, Hand and 12 more | 96 min |
| Jul 11, 1:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Campbell, Corson, McPherson | 58 min |
| Jul 11, 4:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Campbell, Corson, McPherson, Walworth | 117 min |
| Jul 11, 5:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Bayfield, Douglas, Florence, Iron, Sawyer and 2 more | 57 min |
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.