Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2018
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 268
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 9, 2018, 6:01 PM MDT for Richland County, Roosevelt County, Sheridan County, Montana; 12 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 2018, 6:01 PM MDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2018, 1:55 AM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
Counties Richland County, MT, Roosevelt County, MT, Sheridan County, MT, Billings County, ND, Burke County, ND, Divide County, ND, Dunn County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Renville County, ND, Stark County, ND, Ward County, ND, Williams County, ND
The radar
The Minot AFB radar (KMBX), 187 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
25 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 6:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Sheridan | 54 min |
| Jul 9, 6:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | Sheridan | 40 min |
| Jul 9, 6:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Sheridan | 64 min |
| Jul 9, 7:24 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | Sheridan | 51 min |
| Jul 9, 7:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Divide, Williams | 67 min |
| Jul 9, 7:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | Sheridan | 26 min |
| Jul 9, 8:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Sheridan | 56 min |
| Jul 9, 8:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie, Williams | 63 min |
| Jul 9, 8:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Daniels, Roosevelt, Sheridan | 53 min |
| Jul 9, 8:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Roosevelt, Sheridan | 46 min |
| Jul 9, 9:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Williams | 56 min |
| Jul 9, 9:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Sheridan | 20 min |
| Jul 9, 9:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Daniels, Roosevelt | 59 min |
| Jul 9, 9:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Roosevelt, Sheridan | 27 min |
| Jul 9, 9:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie, Williams | 64 min |
| Jul 9, 9:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Daniels, Roosevelt, Sheridan | 14 min |
| Jul 9, 10:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Richland, Roosevelt | 57 min |
| Jul 9, 10:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Roosevelt, Sheridan | 23 min |
| Jul 9, 10:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Roosevelt, Sheridan | 42 min |
| Jul 9, 10:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie, Williams | 63 min |
| Jul 9, 10:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Richland, Roosevelt, Sheridan | 51 min |
| Jul 9, 11:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, McKenzie, Mountrail | 62 min |
| Jul 10, 12:37 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, McKenzie, McLean, Mountrail | 53 min |
| Jul 10, 1:18 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, McLean, Mercer | 57 min |
| Jul 10, 1:46 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McLean, Mercer, Oliver | 59 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 9, 6:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Powder River | 113 min |
| Jul 9, 7:59 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Richland, Roosevelt, Sheridan | 91 min |
| Jul 9, 9:24 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Roosevelt, Sheridan | 96 min |
| Jul 10, 1:50 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Chouteau, Custer, Daniels, Dawson, Fergus and 18 more | 115 min |
| Jul 10, 2:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blaine, Broadwater, Cascade, Chouteau, Daniels, Fergus and 21 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 10, 4:28 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Garfield, Golden Valley, Musselshell, Petroleum, Phillips and 2 more | 2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.