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Tornado Watch 267

June 7, 20208 counties in Minnesota; 25 counties in North Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 7, 2020, 3:06 PM CDT for 8 counties in Minnesota; 25 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2020, 3:06 PM CDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2020, 9:56 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 33 counties

Clay County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Benson County, ND, Cass County, ND, Cavalier County, ND, Dickey County, ND, Eddy County, ND, Emmons County, ND, Foster County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Kidder County, ND, LaMoure County, ND, Logan County, ND, McIntosh County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Ramsey County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Stutsman County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND, Wells County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 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: 50%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 30%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 60%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 70%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

48 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Marshall, Pennington, Red Lake, Roseau	50 min
Jun 7, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Beltrami, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Roseau	23 min
Jun 7, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Marshall, Roseau	49 min
Jun 7, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson, Marshall, Roseau	52 min
Jun 7, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson, Marshall	55 min
Jun 7, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Marshall	57 min
Jun 7, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Clay, Mahnomen, Norman, Polk	29 min
Jun 7, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson	50 min
Jun 7, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson, Marshall	66 min
Jun 7, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	McIntosh	56 min
Jun 7, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Kittson	33 min
Jun 7, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Burleigh, Kidder	47 min
Jun 7, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson	56 min
Jun 7, 6:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	BIS	McIntosh	31 min
Jun 7, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Emmons, Kidder, Logan	57 min
Jun 7, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson	35 min
Jun 7, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson, Marshall	46 min
Jun 7, 7:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	BIS	Dickey, LaMoure, McIntosh	47 min
Jun 7, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Benson, Eddy, Ramsey	30 min
Jun 7, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster	23 min
Jun 7, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Logan, McIntosh	51 min
Jun 7, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Eddy	35 min
Jun 7, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson	64 min
Jun 7, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Kidder, Stutsman	64 min
Jun 7, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Barnes, Griggs, Steele	64 min
Jun 7, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson, Roseau	63 min
Jun 7, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Marshall, Polk	44 min
Jun 7, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Wells	26 min
Jun 7, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Benson, Eddy	52 min
Jun 7, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Benson, Eddy, Ramsey	45 min
Jun 7, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson, Marshall	48 min
Jun 7, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Benson, Eddy, Nelson, Ramsey	46 min
Jun 7, 8:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Kittson, Marshall	28 min
Jun 7, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Foster, Stutsman, Wells	56 min
Jun 7, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	Dickey	60 min
Jun 7, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Nelson, Ramsey, Walsh	45 min
Jun 7, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson	44 min
Jun 7, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Grand Forks, Griggs, Nelson, Steele	67 min
Jun 7, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Pembina	51 min
Jun 7, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Barnes, Cass, Grand Forks, Steele, Traill	56 min
Jun 7, 8:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FGF	Nelson, Ramsey, Walsh	38 min
Jun 7, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Barnes, Cass, Ransom, Traill	48 min
Jun 7, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Kittson	47 min
Jun 7, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	LaMoure	31 min
Jun 7, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Cass, Ransom, Richland, Sargent	64 min
Jun 7, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Marshall, Polk	43 min
Jun 7, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Clay, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake	67 min
Jun 7, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Ransom, Richland, Sargent	42 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

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 279 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 614 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 532 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 503 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 2:18 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aitkin, Anoka, Becker, Beltrami, Benton, Carlton and 22 more	117 min
Jun 7, 1:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 2 more	3 hr
Jun 7, 5:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk and 2 more	2 hr
Jun 6, 8:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benson, Billings, Burke, Burleigh, Dickey, Dunn and 25 more	91 min
Jun 6, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barnes, Benson, Bottineau, Burke, Burleigh, Dickey and 31 more	6 hr
Jun 6, 11:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Burleigh, Dickey, Emmons, Kidder, Logan, McIntosh and 3 more	86 min
Jun 7, 3:59 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Billings, Bowman, Burke, Divide, Dunn, Golden Valley and 9 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.