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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 266
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 8, 2018, 6:59 AM CDT for 5 counties in Minnesota. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2018, 6:59 AM CDT (11:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2018, 11:04 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
Counties Cook County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Koochiching County, MN, Lake County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:03 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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 7:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Lake, Saint Louis | 40 min |
| Jul 8, 8:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Itasca, Koochiching, Saint Louis | 40 min |
| Jul 8, 8:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Saint Louis | 49 min |
| Jul 8, 8:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cook, Lake | 47 min |
| Jul 8, 9:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cook | 36 min |
| Jul 8, 9:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Cook, Lake, Saint Louis | 25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 2:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Norman and 4 more | 85 min |
| Jul 8, 3:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beltrami, Clearwater, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Pennington and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 5:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beltrami, Clearwater, Itasca, Kittson, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods and 5 more | 90 min |
| Jul 8, 9:23 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cook, Lake, Saint Louis | 97 min |
| Jul 8, 1:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Mahnomen and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Big Stone, Carlton, Cass, Clay and 15 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 8, 5:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aitkin, Becker, Benton, Big Stone, Carlton, Cass and 22 more | 119 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.