Alert archive / Minnesota / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2019
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 552
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 5, 2019, 6:50 AM CDT for 35 counties in Minnesota; 17 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 2019, 6:50 AM CDT (11:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2019, 12:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 52 counties
Aitkin County, MN, Anoka County, MN, Benton County, MN, Carlton County, MN, Carver County, MN, Cass County, MN, Chisago County, MN, Crow Wing County, MN, Dakota County, MN, Douglas County, MN, Grant County, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Hubbard County, MN, Isanti County, MN, Itasca County, MN, Kanabec County, MN, Kandiyohi County, MN, McLeod County, MN, Meeker County, MN, Mille Lacs County, MN, Morrison County, MN, Otter Tail County, MN, Pine County, MN, Pope County, MN, Ramsey County, MN, Saint Louis County, MN, Scott County, MN, Sherburne County, MN, Stearns County, MN, Stevens County, MN, Swift County, MN, Todd County, MN, Wadena County, MN, Washington County, MN, Wright County, MN, Ashland County, WI, Barron County, WI, Bayfield County, WI, Burnett County, WI, Chippewa County, WI, Douglas County, WI, Dunn County, WI, Eau Claire County, WI, Iron County, WI, Pepin County, WI, Pierce County, WI, Polk County, WI, Price County, WI, Rusk County, WI, Saint Croix County, WI, Sawyer County, WI, Washburn County, WI
The radar
The Duluth radar (KDLH), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:52 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
- 60%
- 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
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 7:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Cass, Itasca | 44 min |
| Aug 5, 7:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Cass, Itasca, Saint Louis | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 8:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Saint Louis | 40 min |
| Aug 5, 8:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Itasca, Saint Louis | 38 min |
| Aug 5, 8:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Pine | 45 min |
| Aug 5, 8:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 51 min |
| Aug 5, 8:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Saint Louis | 48 min |
| Aug 5, 9:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 9:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Carlton, Pine | 36 min |
| Aug 5, 11:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | McLeod, Renville, Sibley | 31 min |
| Aug 5, 12:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Carver, Hennepin, Wright | 41 min |
| Aug 5, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Anoka, Hennepin, Ramsey | 40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 11:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Norman, Polk | 88 min |
| Aug 4, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Norman, Polk, Wilkin | 8 hr |
| Aug 5, 3:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Norman, Polk, Wilkin | 97 min |
| Aug 5, 5:24 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Wilkin | 96 min |
| Aug 5, 9:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Pine | 116 min |
| Aug 5, 1:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dakota, Dodge and 22 more | 117 min |
| Aug 5, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Chisago, Cottonwood and 26 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 5, 6:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Freeborn, Houston, Mower and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 11:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Burnett, Chippewa, Clark and 20 more | 116 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.