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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 366

June 14, 20229 counties in Minnesota; 12 counties in North Dakota

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 14, 2022, 5:26 AM CDT for 9 counties in Minnesota; 12 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 2022, 5:26 AM CDT (10:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2022, 10:34 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2.5 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 21 counties

Clay County, MN, Kittson County, MN, Mahnomen County, MN, Marshall County, MN, Norman County, MN, Pennington County, MN, Polk County, MN, Red Lake County, MN, Roseau County, MN, Barnes County, ND, Cass County, ND, Grand Forks County, ND, Griggs County, ND, Nelson County, ND, Pembina County, ND, Ransom County, ND, Richland County, ND, Sargent County, ND, Steele County, ND, Traill County, ND, Walsh County, ND

The radar

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:29 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
50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
20%
Ten or more severe hail reports
50%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 5:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatFGFBarnes, Cass, Ransom, Sargent45 min
Jun 14, 6:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatFGFBarnes, Cass, Griggs, Steele45 min
Jun 14, 6:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatFGFGrand Forks, Griggs, Nelson, Steele, Traill43 min
Jun 14, 7:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFGrand Forks, Griggs, Nelson, Ramsey, Steele, Traill and 1 more45 min
Jun 14, 7:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFKittson, Marshall, Pennington, Polk59 min
Jun 14, 8:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFKittson, Marshall, Polk, Roseau53 min
Jun 14, 8:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGFBeltrami, Marshall, Roseau41 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

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 253 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2022-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1797 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2022-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 251 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1797 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
251 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
495 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
3.9
Supercell composite
30.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 7:12 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKittson93 min
Jun 14, 2:36 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBecker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Hubbard, Itasca and 10 more114 min
Jun 14, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeltrami, Cass, Clearwater, Hubbard, Itasca, Kittson and 9 more6 hr
Jun 14, 6:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCItasca, Koochiching, Lake of the Woods115 min
Jun 13, 7:37 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBottineau, McHenry, McLean, Pierce, Ward113 min
Jun 13, 9:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenson, Cavalier, Eddy, Nelson, Pierce, Ramsey and 4 more2 hr
Jun 13, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBenson, Cavalier, Eddy, Griggs, Nelson, Pembina and 3 more8 hr
Jun 13, 11:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEmmons, Logan, McIntosh, Sioux54 min
Jun 13, 11:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDickey, Emmons, Foster, Kidder, LaMoure, Logan and 4 more7 hr
Jun 14, 4:48 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarnes, Cass, Dickey, Eddy, Foster, Grand Forks and 11 more87 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.