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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 352
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 10, 2020, 1:08 PM MDT for 6 counties in Montana; 25 counties in North Dakota; 25 counties in South Dakota. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 2020, 1:08 PM MDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2020, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 56 counties
Daniels County, MT, Dawson County, MT, Richland County, MT, Roosevelt County, MT, Sheridan County, MT, Wibaux County, MT, Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Burke County, ND, Burleigh County, ND, Divide County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Grant County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, McLean County, ND, Mercer County, ND, Morton County, ND, Mountrail County, ND, Oliver County, ND, Renville County, ND, Sioux County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND, Ward County, ND, Williams County, ND, Bennett County, SD, Butte County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Corson County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Haakon County, SD, Harding County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Jackson County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lawrence County, SD, Lyman County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Meade County, SD, Mellette County, SD, Oglala Lakota County, SD, Pennington County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Potter County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Todd County, SD, Tripp County, SD, Walworth County, SD, Ziebach County, SD
The radar
The Bismarck radar (KBIS), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 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
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 60%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 60%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
29 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 2:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Golden Valley, Slope | 56 min |
| Jul 10, 2:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte | 53 min |
| Jul 10, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Richland, Roosevelt | 60 min |
| Jul 10, 2:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings, Slope, Stark | 57 min |
| Jul 10, 2:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte, Lawrence | 55 min |
| Jul 10, 3:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte, Lawrence, Meade | 54 min |
| Jul 10, 3:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Lawrence, Meade | 27 min |
| Jul 10, 3:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Lawrence, Meade, Pennington | 61 min |
| Jul 10, 4:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 34 min |
| Jul 10, 4:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Wibaux | 27 min |
| Jul 10, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Hettinger | 48 min |
| Jul 10, 4:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade, Pennington | 40 min |
| Jul 10, 4:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer, Meade, Pennington | 64 min |
| Jul 10, 5:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings, Golden Valley, McKenzie | 40 min |
| Jul 10, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Grant, Morton | 64 min |
| Jul 10, 5:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer, Pennington | 33 min |
| Jul 10, 5:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer, Jackson, Oglala Lakota, Pennington | 59 min |
| Jul 10, 5:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings, Dunn, Stark | 26 min |
| Jul 10, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons, Sioux | 49 min |
| Jul 10, 6:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett, Jackson, Oglala Lakota | 78 min |
| Jul 10, 6:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Bennett, Oglala Lakota | 50 min |
| Jul 10, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, Corson, Walworth | 47 min |
| Jul 10, 6:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Emmons, Logan, McIntosh | 49 min |
| Jul 10, 7:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | Emmons, McIntosh | 17 min |
| Jul 10, 7:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Bowman | 29 min |
| Jul 10, 7:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett, Jackson, Mellette, Todd | 56 min |
| Jul 10, 7:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, Walworth | 48 min |
| Jul 10, 8:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, Faulk, Potter, Walworth | 33 min |
| Jul 10, 8:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Faulk, Potter | 22 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 10, 12:26 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Fallon, Richland, Wibaux | 2 hr |
| Jul 10, 2:43 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Daniels, Dawson, Fallon, Richland, Roosevelt and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 10, 8:13 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Dewey, Gregory, Haakon, Hughes, Jackson and 9 more | 62 min |
| Jul 10, 5:31 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Jackson, Mellette, Oglala Lakota, Pennington, Todd | 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.